ATI Radeon Mobility X1400 - 1280x800 on the console?
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ATI Radeon Mobility X1400 - 1280x800 on the console?
Hello. I have an ATI Radeon Mobility X1400 and so far I've been able to get 1024x768 going with it on the console. I'd like a "full" 1280x800 resolution. I can get that resolution under X via fglrx-driver but how am I supposed to obtain it when using the console?
why would I reconfigure xserver-xorg when I need to get 1280x800 on the --Console-- ?
it would not change anything, X has nothing to do with it.
i don't know if what you are trying to do is possible... why do you need it anyway? (you can just open a terminal and have high resolution)
how do you know you have 1024x768 on the console? did you count them?
it would not change anything, X has nothing to do with it.
Yes, I thought so, but I asked anyway.
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why do you need it anyway? (you can just open a terminal and have high resolution)
I want it because I no longer want X on my system, simple as that.
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how do you know you have 1024x768 on the console? did you count them?
Yes, I counted "them". And when I finished, I realised I had added vga=792 to the kernel line in Grub's menu.lst
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Have you tried the "vga=871" kernel parameter?
Indeed, this is what I'm getting: You passed an undefined mode number.
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Do you get anything from "vbeprobe" in grubs command line?
Yes, the 'highest' resolution it can give me is 1024x768x32. As X doesn't "natively" support the 1280x800 resolution (which can be obtained via the fglrx-driver); I wasn't really expecting the console to be any different (i.e. perhaps it too need some special patches/whatever).
You could use the radeonfb framebuffer driver, but I don't have an ati card, so I haven't tried it. Add "video=radeonfb" to the kernel line in menu.lst and see if vga=871 works then.
Where XSIZE and YSIZE are the X and Y of the resolution you want, BPP is the color depth, dfp indicates an LCD, and SCREEN_HEIGHT_PX tells the radeonfb driver how tall your monitor is in pixels. Anything in brackets is an optional parameter to the radeonfb driver.
Hope this helps!
Last edited by MindOfMercury; 12-03-2007 at 12:49 PM.
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