Re: [expert] Monitor config Problems

2000-03-01 Thread Jean-Louis Debert
John Aldrich wrote: > > Here are the stats: > > > > Videochipset is Chips and Technologies 64. > > 4M video memory. > > > It may be a chipset limitation. Check with C&T and find out > what it's maximum color depth/resolution is. Typically as > resolution goes up, color depth goes down. Thus, 1

Re: [expert] Monitor config Problems

2000-02-29 Thread Richard Kilgore
On Tue, Feb 29, 2000 at 08:20:24PM +1100, Ron Stodden wrote: > Ivan Trail wrote: > > More bpp means more memory > > needed right? If you put pencil to paper you get 2,621,440 megabytes for the > > 1280x1024 resolution in 16bpp definition. Well within the 4M memory capacity. > > You need to read

Re: [expert] Monitor config Problems

2000-02-29 Thread John Aldrich
On Mon, 28 Feb 2000, you wrote: > Hello, > > I have recently attained a MAG 570FD monitor to use with my laptop. I can't > seem to use the highest definition for the monitor. For instance, I can get > the 1280x1024 resolution to work on 8 bits-per-pixel (bpp) but it will only do > 1024x768 with

Re: [expert] Monitor config Problems

2000-02-29 Thread Ron Stodden
Ivan Trail wrote: > > Hello, Ivan, > More bpp means more memory > needed right? If you put pencil to paper you get 2,621,440 megabytes for the > 1280x1024 resolution in 16bpp definition. Well within the 4M memory capacity. You need to read the Video-Timings HOWTO to get the real formula. The

[expert] Monitor config Problems

2000-02-28 Thread Ivan Trail
Hello, I have recently attained a MAG 570FD monitor to use with my laptop. I can't seem to use the highest definition for the monitor. For instance, I can get the 1280x1024 resolution to work on 8 bits-per-pixel (bpp) but it will only do 1024x768 with16bpp and even less with 24bpp. My question