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[Lee Forrest <lforrestster AT gmail.com>]

On Mon, Jan 08, 2007 at 09:02:49AM +1300, 3aoo-cvfd AT dea.spamcon.org wrote:
> Lee Forrest wrote:
> >
> > VBE version 3.0 (Intel(R) 8xx Chipset Video BIOS)
> > Total memory: 512 kilobytes
> 
> There is your problem.  Can you up that in your BIOS config?

No.

But why is it a problem? This same image I've been using
looks real with debian.

> > 0x010E: 320x200x16 TrueColor [5:6:5:0] (no linear framebuffer)
> > 0x0127: 640x400x16 TrueColor [5:6:5:0] (no linear framebuffer)
> 
> There are your decent color modes.
> I suggest you put 640x400x16 in /etc/Xconfig

That gives a little better color in the image, but no more
detail, and screwed up my xterms badly: Big font and the bottom
and left margins run beyond the screen.

I also tried 320... and got huge font and giant image and giant
xterm.

What's missing now is not really color. It's close to being
acceptable. It's detail - resolution (I'm trying to be careful
with the words I use here, because I don't know the proper jargon
for discussing these things).

Lee

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