Mani A wrote:
On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 5:50 AM, Bill Davidsen
<davidsen(a)tmr.com> wrote:
>> All other problems seem to be fixed in snapshot-2, except for
>> automatic detection of display resolution.
>>
> I'm not worried about "automatic detection," is there any way at all to
tell
> the system to use more than 640x480 (800x600 on one system)? The nice tab
> for defining monitor resolution is gone, replaced with nothing I have found.
In the boot screen
Press esc, then tab
add resolution=1600x1200 as a boot option
and any other 'boot time kernel option' that may be relevant.
On radeon HD 36xx cards, too the radeon driver works 'out of box'
What I have is this (from lspci):
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV535 [Radeon X1650
series] (rev 9e)
01:00.1 Display controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV535 [Radeon X1650 Series]
(rev 9e)
> 640x480 on a 1600x1200 or 1920x1080 monitor is very readable,
probably from
> 100 yards away without optics. I've given up testing for the moment, nothing
> I really want to test runs, even in 800x600.
Best
A. Mani
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