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On Wednesday 9 January 2008, reader@×××××××.com wrote: |
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> By the way about the vga= setting. I grabbed a chart from some where |
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> long ago showing the notation I was using: |
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> ## 640x480 800x600 1024x768 1280x1024 |
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> ## 256 0x301 0x303 0x305 0x307 |
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> ## 32k 0x310 0x313 0x316 0x319 |
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> ## 64k 0x311 0x314 0x317 0x31A |
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> ## 16M 0x312 0x315 0x318 0x31B |
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That is correct. You can use the hex values in the config. |
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> do you know of a chart that shows the decimal notation like you |
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> posted? (Its not in `man vga') |
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No, I just did the math :-) |
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> And I don't recall where I got that from... where ever it was, it |
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> probably also has the decimal equivalents. |
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I think I found the vga=791 line in some ancient LILO sample config file |
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(even before I started using Gentoo) and I stuck with it since then. But |
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again, it does not matter whether you use hex or decimal, as long as the |
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value you use is the same. |
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