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From: Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gentoo@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Aluminum iMac framebuffer?
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 2009 16:40:07 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <58965d8a0908201440m79547210g8b445a9e9d5f6389@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <c6cb7500908201426n7dd0537cjc46e9f2be0c06b41@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 4:26 PM, Simon Hunt<chesemonkyloma@gmail.com> 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?

Try uvesafb, it is (sometimes) able to utilize more modes than the
other framebuffers. The available resolutions are highly dependent on
your video hardware, though.

http://dev.gentoo.org/~spock/projects/uvesafb/



  reply	other threads:[~2009-08-20 21:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-08-20 21:26 [gentoo-user] Aluminum iMac framebuffer? Simon Hunt
2009-08-20 21:40 ` Paul Hartman [this message]
2009-08-20 23:55   ` Peter Humphrey
2009-08-20 23:26 ` pk
2009-08-20 23:26 ` pk

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