On Tuesday 03 April 2007 06:24, Freddie Cash wrote: > 1024x768 is a pretty standard VESA mode used on a lot of people's text > consoles. :) On most videocards, MODE_279 will be 1024x768 w/16 bpp > colour. Check the output of "vidcontrol -i". You'll see a lot of > different modes, some text, some raster/bitmap/VESA/whatever-you-call-it. > > This has nothing to do with X or any GUI.
I don't understand why people who want high resolution consoles don't run X. It is a *lot* faster for the vast majority of cards (ie ones which aren't doing VESA modes). Scrolling a screen full of text at a decent resolution using VESA == slideshow. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C
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