On Feb 22, 2004, Jos Vos <jos@xxxxxx> wrote: > Yes... I'm talking about 1400x1050 laptops (e.g. the ASUS M3700N, > there is an Acer model with the same issue and maybe there are more) > with an Intel graphics chipset that only work in Linux on 1024x768, > because "the Linux driver only supports BIOS-modes" (IIRC BIOS modes? This sounds like the VESA driver, and this means the VBE tables are missing some of the resolutions the graphics card supports. It's a BIOS bug, that ideally the laptop vendor should support, even if by demanding the graphics card vendor to improve their VBE code. Unfortunately, laptop vendors generally don't care about the VBE code, since they generally care only support OSs that don't use them anyway. > I now bought one with ATI Radeon which is reported to work (although > currently - pre-4.4.0 - only with a binary ATI driver). Eeek. Binary drivers suck. I'd rather use VESA any time. After having made the mistake of paying Dell for a 1600x1200 screen that their VESA VBE tables didn't support, I don't plan on making this mistake again. Either the video card is supported natively by X, or I go for a lower-resolution screen that has VESA support. -- Alexandre Oliva Enjoy Guarana', see http://www.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/ Happy GNU Year! oliva@{lsd.ic.unicamp.br, gnu.org} Red Hat GCC Developer aoliva@{redhat.com, gcc.gnu.org} Free Software Evangelist Professional serial bug killer
