Re: How to change start up screen resolution for X?
On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 03:10:20PM -0800, Osamu Aoki wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 03:39:29PM -0600, Nathan E Norman wrote:
> > On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 01:50:45PM -0600, will trillich wrote:
> > > all i can get is 800x600 which ain't much. :(
> > >
> > > i've googled for MEMOREX-TELEX (CDS-4583) and haven't found much
> > > in the way of answers for horiz/vert refresh or clock speeds.
> > > anybody know of a site somewhere that's got a collection of that
> > > kind of info?
> >
> > CDS-4583 is P/N 955313-003 which is a '14" SVGA monitor'. My
> > recollection of Super-VGA is that you could do 1024x768 at some crappy
> > refresh rate like 60Hz ... but anything better than that is a long
> > shot.
>
> Good google :) but SVGA is Super-VGA and only 800 x 720 !
>
> CGA: 640 X 200 (8*8 font, 80chars * 25 lines)
> DCGA: 640 X 400 (8*16 font, 80chars * 25 lines)
> VGA: 640 x 480
> SVGA: 800 x 720
> XGA: 1024 x 768
> SXGA 1280 x1024
> UXGA: 1600 x1440
Thanks, I will keep this list for future reference :) Once again
someone has proved that my recollections are not as accurate as I
would like.
> In old days, it was not multi-sync monitor. No wonder you can only get
> SVGA only.
I guess that was the point I was trying to make; this monitor is so
old the pain factor is quite high. I would not recommend running X on
such a dinosaur.
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