Le dimanche 21 décembre 2008, William L. Maltby a écrit : > > I did what you said, but it seems I didn't get the expected results: > > > > Video adapter: VESA VGA > > Mode: COLSxROWS: > > 0 0F00 80x25 > > 1 0F01 80x50 > > 2 0F02 80x43 > > 3 0F03 80x28 > > 4 0F05 80x30 > > 5 0F06 80x34 > > 6 0F07 80x60 > > Those are good. But now that I see them I remember that they are for > virtual consoles. I don't recall that they would affect the > system-config-display actions. > > Regardless, you can pick one at boot time if "vga=ask" (without the > quotes) and you'll see different character sizes. If you code "vga=xxx", > where the "xxx" is one of those codes, they must be converted to decimal > first. > One of those links I posted later has a link to how to do that. > > But, as I mentioned, I now don't think this will affect the X setup. No, it don't affect. > > So, no graphic mode as I could find by googling > > http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Framebuffer-HOWTO-5.html > > This link only has effect if you're using framebuffer. That's (IIRC) > optional - I have it on my 4.x system, but I set it up a long time ago > and would have to research to recall the details. It gave a nice speed > improvement. I found several links: http://www.tkk.fi/Misc/Electronics/faq/vga2rgb/calc.html http://xtiming.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/xtiming.pl Unfortunately, I can't find the dot clock for the driver as I can't find the video controller model "ATI Technologies Inc M71 [Mobility Radeon X2100]" on the ATI website :-( > Anyway, it's not mandatory. If you want to use it, more setup steps are > needed. I would skip it now and continue what you're doing - get a basic > acceptable setup running. > > > If I use, as an example, vga=0x307, when I startx, I can see saying 4 > > desktops > > As I mention above, I think the hexadecimal needs to be converted to > decimal. It's been a _long_ time, but I _think_ 0x307 = 775 decimal. But > I don't remember if that value is big-endian or little-endian. Big, I > think. Both notations, decimal and hexadecimal, are allowed. > > on the width of the screen and height of these desktop are only 1/10 > > height on the screen, at the top of it > > So, 9/10 of the screen is black. > > > > Regards, > > Alain > > I saw that another posted some parameters to try with > system-config-display. I'm going to peek at that and see what else I > might offer. > > I might save my configs and play with system-config-display a bit and > see if any clues pop up. Thanks! Alain -- Les pages de manuel Linux en français http://manpagesfr.free.fr/