Re: [9fans] Setting the resolution

[Angelo Papenhoff <kotzkroete@gmail.com>]

On Oct 20, 5:08 pm, quans...@coraid.com (erik quanstrom) wrote:
> > On Oct 20, 2:51 pm, quans...@quanstro.net (erik quanstrom) wrote:
> > > > Could it be something with my graphics card maybe (it's onboard)?
> > > > I hope someone can give me a hint :)
>
> > > which video controller?  i've had similar problems with an nvidia
> > > card and a monitor with tight timings.  by beating on aux/vga
> > > and stretching the timings in vgadb, i did get something my monitor
> > > can sync to, though not a proper resolution.
>
> > > - erik
>
> > I tried it with different monitors and they work with higher
> > resolutions so it must be something with the monitor.
> > Unfortunately I have little knowledge of plan9 and vgadb.
> > Can you tell me how you did that?
>
> i'm ashamed to admit, it was by trial and error.
> and a few hacks to vga/nvidia.c.
>
> - erik


I think it must be possible without hacks.
I'm probably just too ignorant to get it to work :/