On 01/04/10 04:21, [email protected] wrote: > Hi, > > System: Development (B)LFS > i686-pc-linux-gnu, 2.6.33.1, GRUB: 0.97 > Motherboard: ASUS P5E-VM HDMI > Internal Graphics Display (IGD): Intel G35, HDMI output > External Video Card (PEG): ASUS GeForce 9500GT, PCIe x16, HDMI output > Monitor: Samsung SM2494, Wide (16:9), DVI input (through HDMI-DVI cable) > > General: I always boot in text mode (to console "prompt") first. > > 1. So far, with the IGD no problems: the kernel boot-up text, > console prompt work, vi editing, etc., the text is displayed > in HD, i.e., for the whole length of the screen (as 80x24) > > 2. I installed the new PEG (9500). > Problem: The text is displayed in "narrow" (SD), 4:3 fashion > i.e., using only the "4" of the horizontal (instead of the full "16"). > > I haven't found anything (BIOS - PEG/PCI, etc.) to change the situation. > One would expect that by just moving the cable from the IGD output to > the PEG output, things wouldn't change text(VGA?)-wise. > > Notes: > 1. To avoid any confusion, the card (PEG) works fine once in > graphics mode (Xorg-7.5, NVidia "nvidia" 195.36.15 latest driver; > "nv" doesn't work). > 2. I didn't make any effort in the original configuration (i.e., > the IGD) in order to make the text go wide, when I changed from a > 4:3 monitor to this one. The "widening" of the text just happened. > > Any helpful comments will be highly appreciated. > Thanks, > -- Alex If you're using the nvidia driver you can't use the kernel framebuffer. This isn't an easy solution, but have you tried the nouveau driver? It's on the Device Drivers> Staging drivers part of make menuconfig. I've had good results with a GeForce 9800 GT. It'll need extra firmware (I don't have the computer here so I can't check the details) which you can either build into the kernel or (more simply) build the nouveau driver as a module. The nouveau api changed in the 2.6.34 kernel so you'll need to match the versions of libdrm, mesa and the xf86-video-nouveau with the kernel you're using.
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