From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 To: 9fans@9fans.net Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2008 10:29:03 +0000 From: Angelo Papenhoff Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <1ee0c55b-ee5b-4f6d-99db-4afe8d345e60@31g2000prz.googlegroups.com> Subject: Re: [9fans] Setting the resolution Topicbox-Message-UUID: 27a56d48-ead4-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 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 :/