Re: Can't use high resolutions!!

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From: Matan Ziv-Av (matan@svgalib.org)
Date: Wed 30 Aug 2000 - 18:33:55 IDT


On Wed, 30 Aug 2000, matteopalma@libero.it wrote:

> I've a matrox G400 32M and use VESA driver for it.
> Well, the only resolutions I can see are those under or equal
> 800x600.... if I try to use higer resolutions the console crash
> (graphically...). The problem doesn't seem to be influenced by
> the number of color used.

Reports I read are that the BIOS in Matrox G200 and G400 does not have
higher resolutions than 800x600.


> What can I do?!?

The only way to use Matrox cards in svgalib at higher resolution is to
write a driver, which is not very hard.

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Matan Ziv-Av.                         matan@svgalib.org


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