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Re: vesa display codes (Etch Xorg memory leak?)



On Sun, 2007-05-20 at 01:10 -0400, cga2000 wrote: 
> On Sat, May 19, 2007 at 07:33:51PM EDT, Owen Heisler wrote:
> > On Sat, 2007-05-19 at 19:10 -0400, Greg Folkert wrote:
> > > On Fri, 2007-05-18 at 00:10 -0400, Greg Folkert wrote:
> > > > On Thu, 2007-05-17 at 18:34 -0500, Owen Heisler wrote:
> > > > > On Thu, 2007-05-17 at 16:02 -0400, Greg Folkert wrote:
> > > > > > http://www.gregfolkert.net/info/vesa-display-codes.html
> > > > > 
> > > > > Very helpful!  Although no 1280x960 (grr) unfortunately.  Is there any
> > > > > way to get that?
> > > > 
> > > > vbetool is supposed to do it.
> > > > 
> > > > Or "hwinfo --vbe"
> > > > 
> > > > But they aren't exactly 100%, as I haven't been able to get the info out
> > > > of the hardware yet.
> > > 
> > > FYI, I've updated the page and now lists a few things to get other
> > > modes. Though the framebuffer howtos have not really been updated since
> > > 2000 or 2001.
> > 
> > video=<>:xres:<>,yres:<>,depth:<>,left:<>,right:<>,hslen:<>,upper:<>,lower:<>,vslen:<>
> > 
> > It looks like I need something like this:
> > Modeline  "1280x1024" DCF HR SH1 SH2 HFL VR SV1 SV2 VFL
> > 
> > Is there some way to get that from xorg?
> 
> Oh .. maybe,
> 
> $ modeline2fb
> 
> Same fbset package as the other stuff previously mentioned.

A list of the available video drivers here (?):
http://linux-fbdev.sourceforge.net/driverlist.php

I tried:
video=rivafb:1280x960
video=vesafb:1280x960

but neither worked.

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