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From: mveety@mveety.com
To: 9front@9front.org
Subject: Re: [9front] new bounties: replace p9sk1; improve the tls(3) device
Date: Wed, 20 May 2015 19:20:26 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1805a89d05519e21f59954e7ed04e299@styx> (raw)

> On May 20, 2015 7:05 PM, <sl@9front.org> wrote:
> >
> > > I'll pay someone between $100 and $150 to make a driver for the nVidia
> > > GeForce GTX 460M.  Just being able to set the proper resolution and
> > > use it as a display or so would be awesome.  Ideally make it work like
> > > the vesa driver, in that you can set any resolution and not have to
> > > make a monitor definition for your display.  Something like "aux/vga
> > > -m geforce -l 1920x1080x32" or so.
> >
> > Support for newer nVidia cards would be great. I do have two older
> > cards that work with the existing driver.
> >
> > Note: The VESA driver only works with whatever modes the VESA BIOS
> > reports; unfortunately, we've found (for example) some laptops whose
> > VESA BIOS does not contain a mode for its LCD screen's native
> > resolution.
> >
> > sl
>
> I think this includes my w510.

It includes my laptop.  If I disable the internal display it lets me
set the native resolution of that display fine.  I would like to see a
tool that sets resolutions via vesa that aren't in the bios.  I know
this is possible because the hackintosh fags do it, but I have no clue
how it's done.  They don't document anything.

--
Veety



             reply	other threads:[~2015-05-20 23:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-05-20 23:20 mveety [this message]
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2015-05-20 23:00 mveety
2015-05-20 23:03 ` Jacob Todd
2015-05-20 21:31 sl
2015-05-20 21:04 sl
2015-05-20 23:08 ` Jacob Todd

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