George Tsalikis wrote:
> O/H Denis Oliver Kropp έγραψε:
>> George Tsalikis wrote:
>>> Is it possible? i wanna get 1280x800 on my laptop for fullscreen output. 
>>> But since a proper fbdev module is missing (radeonfb doesnt support ATI 
>>> x1600), i can only work with vesa drivers (vesafb, vesafb-tng, uvesafb) 
>>> which afaik dont support widescreen resolutions. Can DirectFB override 
>>> that in some way?
>> You can find out if there are vendor specific modes in your BIOS. I did that
>> once with a hexdump of the BIOS, locating the mode table and trying some of
>> the values that looked like being mode numbers next to the numbers of the
>> resolution that I wanted. After one or two tries it worked :)
>>
> So all i have to do is read the bios, change some hex values, flash and 
> pray?

No, just get the mode numbers from the BIOS and try them on the kernel command 
line :)

-- 
Best regards,
   Denis Oliver Kropp

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