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 1MeFMf-0002dA-Gp for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 20 Aug 2009 21:40:09 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 33D51E05CB; Thu, 20 Aug 2009 21:40:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-yw0-f172.google.com (mail-yw0-f172.google.com [209.85.211.172]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 18F62E05CB for ; Thu, 20 Aug 2009 21:40:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ywh2 with SMTP id 2so578447ywh.2 for ; Thu, 20 Aug 2009 14:40:07 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:sender:received:in-reply-to :references:date:x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=24K8shGRPeUtGwAXoSGc2XbwiZYVmJgSqsahvxW/HHg=; b=kR4J3ICgIjVY+TGOMT21E1orn1mGlUIYxOXs3Eho+RZzXydMBP1o/13NWgkyv+nm+/ W/CJK4Nqq3wImf0hAvSNxsDdjZ2HwU6m8TfruSQ2RHWQoyftNsNyQwzCXkoiGas3gw6x 620O7ZntqkIvIrHJCBBniY4w1ks38fc/hsRPw= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; b=slILfC6UZdfGwQZxh7rYtHuE23dWxvqsxpl0oCcc1eEgYNTkSeAHIgkMm+CZSUHaak XeE2tcBulmIzHdE0owQUHgXKNbYGWeezAPwHWatMhlzGUM4VU0zgMxIkcS1YMdQlqqZg vQ4/ZQkzjPOkswJ0Y9uaGcG3MISWIwiTL9Gy4= 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 Sender: paul.hartman@gmail.com Received: by 10.150.244.4 with SMTP id r4mr682465ybh.127.1250804407650; Thu, 20 Aug 2009 14:40:07 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: Date: Thu, 20 Aug 2009 16:40:07 -0500 X-Google-Sender-Auth: 92cb3b5e75b4cd1c Message-ID: <58965d8a0908201440m79547210g8b445a9e9d5f6389@mail.gmail.com> Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Aluminum iMac framebuffer? From: Paul Hartman To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: b997bf50-86a8-41a0-8839-084ea0f85d94 X-Archives-Hash: e3bfa84754460c155383726fbc178ab2 On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 4:26 PM, 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? 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/