From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MeH1C-0003rd-Cm for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 20 Aug 2009 23:26:06 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 283FBE027B; Thu, 20 Aug 2009 23:26:04 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.allt1.se (ftgrelay.alltele.net [85.8.30.10]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E88BDE027B for ; Thu, 20 Aug 2009 23:26:03 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail.allt1.se (Postfix, from userid 1002) id 9728319D942; Fri, 21 Aug 2009 01:23:00 +0200 (CEST) Received: from [192.168.1.100] (71.57.227.87.static.th.siw.siwnet.net [87.227.57.71]) by mail.allt1.se (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3E03219D93F for ; Fri, 21 Aug 2009 01:22:59 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <4A8DDB89.3010903@coolmail.se> Date: Fri, 21 Aug 2009 01:26:01 +0200 From: pk User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.22 (X11/20090814) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Aluminum iMac framebuffer? References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: d8ad14ca-a122-4bda-9ddf-5fd3eca1dfb2 X-Archives-Hash: a05e289335fecbf3ad675797b30f4049 Simon Hunt wrote: > I can't get a 1680x1050 framebuffer (my native resolution) or any widescreen > framebuffer on this intel iMac and the console looks pretty bad because of > it. The best I can use is 1024x768. I have a Radeon HD 2400 XT video card. > The Radeon framebuffer "radeonfb" in the kernel doesn't support this card. > What can I do? Don't know the specifics of your hardware but I use vesa framebuffer which works fine for me (stationary pc, radeon 3870). However, for some reason, the radeon cards I have (all rv600+) do not seem to support the standard vga modes; I had to use a tool (vbetest from package lrmi) to find out the number to put into the kernel command line. I use vga=804 to achieve 1280x1024@24. Don't know if this will help but it can probably (don't know for sure) find the supported modes... HTH Best regards Peter K