Re: Monitor resolution

Andy Cap <Andy_Cap@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

On Wed, 20 Jun 2007 20:40:27 +0100, Bruce Stephens
<bruce+usenet@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

[...]

IIUC, that ought to say something
useful about the framebuffer device (whether it's generic VESA VGA or
something more specific). Then you can try suitable options from the
right file in Documentation/fb/.

Don't know what or where this is !

The source of a kernel. It's quite possible you don't have the
source.

[...]

I can do that once I know what to put in it. There is both a grub.conf and a
Menu.lst that appear to have the same contents, mostly referring to the Linux
build as you say.

What kind of entry am I aiming to add ?

Try video=i810fb:1024x768M@60m and see if that does anything. From
<http://www.mjmwired.net/kernel/Documentation/fb/modedb.txt>. Or
1280x1024M@60m.

If that doesn't work, you could try vesadb instead of i810fb. That
ought to work on most modern PCs, I think.

(I confess I haven't tried any of this. I use vesafb, and "ga=794.
That used to be the sort of thing you needed to say but it's a bit
opaque.)
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