From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1764899AbXGRGgU (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 Jul 2007 02:36:20 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752568AbXGRGgI (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 Jul 2007 02:36:08 -0400 Received: from wx-out-0506.google.com ([66.249.82.231]:5497 "EHLO wx-out-0506.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752260AbXGRGgG (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 Jul 2007 02:36:06 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=rT1YpPX5XjA0MuLI3Wt5FrfpOBuE79YVopx7/fuuCBPd6VW/+dC55l52Sa+zlVKnd+S2fO6W8wPzIcKoX2uYuTXHPvRxOu1z9f+nVCTLk+jDlQmdsMCa1KYVk3c+CR6wiTFeg+TnPS3bUmDkLpzIYCw1L9NnvoGj2jkZnlArevc= Message-ID: Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2007 08:36:05 +0200 From: "Sasa Ostrouska" To: "Daniel Drake" Subject: Re: VESAFB CUSTOM RESOLUTION Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <469D71FB.5070408@gentoo.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <469D71FB.5070408@gentoo.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 7/18/07, Daniel Drake wrote: > Sasa Ostrouska wrote: > > I want to ask one question about a custom resolution in the console. > > I have a Sony Vaio Laptop VGN-SZ2VP/X, the screen resolution is > > 1280x800, now I'm using the vga=773 which is an 1024x768 but this is > > ugly as I get a border of about 2-3cm on one the sides of the screen. > > So is there a way that I set the 1280x800 resolution at boot time ? > > I don't think vesafb can do what you want. However, uvesafb probably can. > > http://dev.gentoo.org/~spock/projects/uvesafb/ > > Daniel Daniel you seem to be right, as till now, no one of those solutions for me worked, I always end up or with a non recognised option or a small square 640x480 pixels where I see the console. I need to try still the vbetest thing what Mr. Daplas proposed. In any case this laptop has an screen of 16:10 aspect ratio and I belive would be good to have those modes in the vesafb driver. Rgds Sasa