windoze runs u're card with the card specific drivers,
mostly supplied by the vendor. The vendor knows how to
put his card into whatever mode he likes, but altho
VESA is a global standard, it depends on the vendor to
support his mode changing interface thru VESA or
not...
Nikhil.
--- Sachin Bhale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Yeah i got the same problem too. and i dont think it
> is a problem about the
> amount of vram as i can run the same modes in
> windows too.
> whats the matter
>
> >From: "Sthitaprajna" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >Subject: [LIH] FBDev X
> >Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2000 16:07:07 +0530
> >
> >Hi folks
> >
> >A ran into a peculiar problem yesterday.....it's
> like this>>
> >When i run FB X at 24 bpp, the thing just won't
> work, funnily,
> >everything is alright at 8, 16 and even 32 bpp. So
> what's up??
> >
> >Though I run X otherwise, this was just some sort
> of a test run to see
> >how framebuffer works. Anyone else fell into this
> well? Am using
> >SuSE 6.3
> >
> >Thanks
> >
> >
> >
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