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From: Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gentoo@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Aluminum iMac framebuffer?
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 2009 21:40:09
Message-Id: 58965d8a0908201440m79547210g8b445a9e9d5f6389@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Aluminum iMac framebuffer? by Simon Hunt
1 On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 4:26 PM, Simon Hunt<chesemonkyloma@×××××.com> wrote:
2 > I can't get a 1680x1050 framebuffer (my native resolution) or any widescreen
3 > framebuffer on this intel iMac and the console looks pretty bad because of
4 > it. The best I can use is 1024x768. I have a Radeon HD 2400 XT video card.
5 > The Radeon framebuffer "radeonfb" in the kernel doesn't support this card.
6 > What can I do?
7
8 Try uvesafb, it is (sometimes) able to utilize more modes than the
9 other framebuffers. The available resolutions are highly dependent on
10 your video hardware, though.
11
12 http://dev.gentoo.org/~spock/projects/uvesafb/

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Re: [gentoo-user] Aluminum iMac framebuffer? Peter Humphrey <peter@××××××××××××××.org>