On 3/9/06, Antonino A. Daplas [off-list ref] wrote:

Miles Lane wrote:

quoted

Hi,

I have a "Intel Corporation 82852/855GM Integrated Graphics Device
(rev 02)" in my laptop.  I am currently running Fedora Core Test3 +
Rawhide updates on it.  I would like to use 1280x768 in my VT
framebuffer displays.  Unfortunately, neither fbset or 855resolution
cause the video mode to change.  I boot with the kernel option
vga=791.  This gives me 1024x768@76, according to fbset.

Specifically, I have tried "fbset -xres 1280 -yres 768 -a" and
"855resolution mode 1280 768".

If you are using a flatpanel display, then no, you cannot change the
resolution, or anything for that matter, with fbset.

Xorg's DDC info shows this mode:
*Mode: 7e (1280x768)
        XResolution: 1280
        YResolution: 768
        BitsPerPixel: 32
Is there any way to tell vesafb to use this mode?  I have searched
using Google quite a bit, but come up empty-handed.

855resolution can be used to patch a video mode with different vres
and yres.  It works for me to get 1280x768, but fbcon doesn't increase
the number of columns (stty doesn't help)
so I end up having the characters in the left-hand part of the screen
get redisplayed along the right side of the display, like this:

Here I go to the store.................                         Here I go
This is approximately what I see........                   This is app

You get the idea?

Thanks,
      Miles


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