why i can not set VESA_800x600.

Tue May 11 07:45:57 PDT 2004

On Tue, May 11, 2004 at 10:09:54PM +0800, Deng XueFeng wrote:

> My laptop is HP NX7000.with ATI mobility raedon 9200.32M RAM
> BUT can not set VESA_800x600.
> anyone can help me?
> 

Check out 'vidcontrol -i mode' with VESA compiled in/loaded. 
I guess you won't see 800x600x4 there.
AFAIK, ATI doesn't support 800x600x4bpp since Mobility M1.
So there's no chance to get VESA_800x600.

It was discussed many times - check out the archive.

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