Re: any pages listing text mode resolutions of video cards?
On Nov 11, 2007 7:46 PM, Daniel B. <dsb@smart.net> wrote:
> I've been having trouble finding out the text-mode resolutions of
> video cards. Does anyone know of a good compilation of that
> information?
Here is a list of modes:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VESA_BIOS_Extensions#Linux_video_mode_numbers
I think any card that supports VESA probably has to support
1280x1024 and 24 bits (see the table higher up on that page)
> Relatedly, are they any good tutorials on switching from using
> hardware text-mode for non-X virtual consoles to using ... um ...
> whatever the name is of the feature of having textual virtual
> consoles generated using hardware graphics mode?
Framebuffer? I am not sure I understand what you are asking,
but I think you want your VTs to use higher resolutions and be
graphics capable e.g. fbi http://packages.debian.org/etch/fbi
If that is what you mean, you need to edit your grub menu.lst
file and add to the kernel line a reference like vga=791
http://wiki.ubuntu.com/FrameBuffer
Cheers,
Kelly Clowers
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