[haiku-development] Re: Video Problem

  • From: "Axel Dörfler" <axeld@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2008 12:21:23 +0100 CET

Stephan Assmus <superstippi@xxxxxx> wrote:
> What would be awesome is if video chips dynamically added an entry 
> for the 
> EDID native mode in their VESA BIOS. For my notebook (ATI X1400), I 
> am 
> lucky that the native panel resolution is in the BIOS list, but my 
> external 
> monitor has 1920x1200, and that is not listed.

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).
I just found out that the refresh rate can be set with VBE 3.0 only, so 
my latest changes won't help Gerald.

Bye,
   Axel.


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