Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
On Tue, Nov 13, 2007 at 12:26:33AM -0500, Daniel B. wrote:Kelly Clowers wrote:On Nov 12, 2007 7:24 AM, Daniel B. <dsb@smart.net> wrote:Kelly Clowers wrote: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)Actually, I was talking about text-mode resolutions (as I wrote above), not graphics-mode resolutions.Ok, I found it in that Wikipedia article: Modes 264-268 (vesa's numbers, not the kernel's) are text modes. 264 (0108h) is 80x60, 265 (0109h) is 132x25 266 (010Ah) is 132x43, 267 (010Bh) is 132x50 268 (010Ch) is 132x60.Actually, what I meant was the text-mode resolutions supported by specific video cards. That is, information usable to choose which card to get. My old card did 132x60. My new card did 132x44. In case I buy a new card, I want to know which modes a given card supports. I haven't been able to find that information. (I haven't found any compilation for multiple cards; the manufacturer's page for my new card doesn't mention the text modes.)So to be clear, you are specifically __not__ wanting to use a framebuffer which uses graphic mode and is therefore slower.
Not necessarily. I'm trying using a framebuffer mode to see how it is. However, I'd like to be able to know what text mode a card supports the next time I buy a video card in case I don't want to use framebuffer mode. Daniel -- Daniel B. dsb@smart.net