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saciel

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From: Germany

Registered: 2006-07-30

Posts: 153

16:9 display in textmode

My next notebook will probably have one of these ugly widescreens, as there are hardly any cheap ones with 3:4 displays. What will I have to do on the kernal command line to tell framebuffer what to do?

The framebuffer settings have this strange code, like 1024x768 and 16M colors is "0x318". How can I set widescreen resolutions there?

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hacosta

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From: Mexico

Registered: 2006-10-22

Posts: 423

Re: 16:9 display in textmode

you would probably need to use vesafb-tng instead of just vesa. arch's default kernel currently uses vesa iirc.