Copying across the setting for the Monitor, Device and Screen section from the file posted by Jon-Ivar Lund at the URL below has enabled me to use the full 800x600 of the screen in 16bit colour.
Therefore please ignore this thread and accept my apologises for not fully exhausting the resources available on the web before asking for help. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Charles Michie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, July 21, 2003 10:51 PM Subject: Re: [XFree86] Screen size with Cirrus Logic 7556 Chipset. > I have just found a couple of XF86Config files for the Cirrus Logic 7555 > chipset on a link on the http://www.linux-on-laptops.com/xfree86.html > webpage. I will see what I can do with these and post my progress. > > > Hi, > > > > I have just installed RedHat Linux 7.0 on to my laptop which has a Cirrus > > Logic 7556 video card. By adding the line "vga=0x303" into the lilo.conf > > file enables the VESA frame buffering (I am not quite sure what this > means), > > XFree86 uses the middle 640x480 of the 800x600 LCD display and leaves the > > surrounding border blue (though when linux boots all of the screen is used > > and a penguin appears in a colour box in the top left hand corner of the > > screen). > > > > I am using the rpms for XFree86 that came on the RedHat 7.0 CDs (including > > XFree86-4.0.1-1 and > > XFree86-SVGA-3.3.6-33) > > > > My Hardware is; > > AST M Series Laptop with P133MHz Processor and 80Mb of RAM > > Graphic Card - 32-bit PCI Cirrus Logic 7556 with 2MB video memory; 64-bit > > video RAM interface with simultaneous internal/external monitor support. > > Monitor - Type(TFT) SVGA, Size12.1" Diagonal, Max Resolution800x600 - 64K > > Color, Character Display80 Columns x 25 Lines > > > > I have to admit that I am a bit of a novice at this and any suggestions > > would how to use the full screen would be gratefully rec'd. > > > > Thanks, > > > > Charlie. > > > > _______________________________________________ > > XFree86 mailing list > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86 > > > > _______________________________________________ > XFree86 mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86 > _______________________________________________ XFree86 mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
