[haiku-development] Re: Video Problem

Stephan Assmus <superstippi@xxxxxx> wrote:
> > Unfortunately, that's not possible at all, as even VESA standard 
> > 3.0 does 
> > not allow to set customized resolutions (which is a pretty stupid 
> > oversight, if you ask me).
[...]
> No I mean that the chip modifies it's own VESA BIOS (like one slot is 
> reserved for the native EDID resolution of the currently attached 
> screen). 
> This is certainly possible, since for a long time, the Linux way to 
> get a 
> custom resolution from the Intel driver was to patch it's VESA BIOS. 
> I am 
> saying the chip could do it itsself. Would be cool anyways, but who 
> cares 
> about some neat VESA features.

Well, patching a VESA BIOS requires a lot of info to get it right, so 
that cannot really be a generic solution. Of course, we could 
specifically try to do this for chipsets we cannot support due to 
missing specs - but this requires a lot of hacking, and trying, too :-)

Bye,
   Axel.
m

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