On Mon, May 27, 2002 at 04:58:15PM -0400, Mike Dresser wrote: | > > graphics-based. Look at fb/vesafb.txt.gz instead. You can also try | > > the tridentfb driver, but I think it is brand new and not stable yet. | | And with the speed of tridents, pushing molasses through a drinking straw | might be faster. Maybe. I've only seen some old Tridents and haven't tried playing with X on them. | I played around with SVGATextMode. | | Tried my trident, an S3 Virge 375, a matrox Millenium, and an ATI Rage II | based card. I'd try a nice new card, but this old pentium 120 doesn't | have AGP. Matrox cards are supposed to be really good. There's also a framebuffer specifically for the matrox cards, and I think it's one of the stablest ones. | None of them can push a high enough pixel clock, to drive the monitor. | | > I use framebuffers on the console at 1864x1400 in 60 Hz, and (more | > often) 1600x1200 at 60 Hz. I prefer to waste real screen estate on a | > nice font though (Sun12x22). | | I think I'm going to hit my monitor limit, this is a 14", that runs ... | well, walks, at 1024x768 on a good day. | | Even with a better monitor substituted(15" TTX 8570), I still can't get | the pixel clock. | | Any bigger of a monitor defeats the purpose of this, which is to make my | text even smaller. | | I suspect I should find a non-technological solution to people wandering | in my office and reading my screen and bothering me while I'm trying to | work. Oh, that's the problem? You're looking for one of those "glare" shields that prevents viewing from any angle other than dead-on. Anyways, with 1280x1024 and the default font (I don't know how to change it ...) on my 17" CRT monitor I really need my glasses on to read it. I think some of it might be due to the fuzziness of the CRT (a flat-panel would be much better, but costs too much). I get this much text on the screen : $ stty size 64 160 HTH, -D -- Better a little with righteousness than much gain with injustice. Proverbs 16:8 GnuPG key : http://dman.ddts.net/~dman/public_key.gpg
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