On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 4:26 PM, Simon Hunt<chesemonkyl...@gmail.com> wrote: > I can't get a 1680x1050 framebuffer (my native resolution) or any widescreen > framebuffer on this intel iMac and the console looks pretty bad because of > it. The best I can use is 1024x768. I have a Radeon HD 2400 XT video card. > The Radeon framebuffer "radeonfb" in the kernel doesn't support this card. > What can I do?
Try uvesafb, it is (sometimes) able to utilize more modes than the other framebuffers. The available resolutions are highly dependent on your video hardware, though. http://dev.gentoo.org/~spock/projects/uvesafb/
