VESA_800x600 (age old question)
Lewis Thompson
lewiz at fajita.org
Wed Sep 8 11:36:26 PDT 2004
Hi,
This question has been rehashed many times, so I apologise. I've got
VESA and SC_PIXEL_MODE in my kernel and I want to be able to do:
vidcontrol VESA_800x600.
However, when I do this I receive the following message:
vidcontrol: cannot set videomode: Operation not supported by device
The general answer to this seems to be make sure SC_PIXEL_MODE is in
your kernel. It is. This is an Intel 855GM/GME Montara (I use i810 for
x.org). I don't know if it means anything but in the Xorg.log file I am
told that a VESA BIOS is detected:
(II) I810(0): VESA BIOS detected
Can somebody please tell me what this means? Somebody seemed to think
that the error means that the card doesn't have a VESA BIOS but this
doesn't seem to be the case. Is VESA_800x600 just not supported on the
855GM?
Thanks and apologies... this topic is getting boring now ;)
-lewiz.
--
I was so much older then, I'm younger than that now. --Bob Dylan, 1964.
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