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Hi, for some reason vbeinfo doesn't list the full range of supported resolutions for my display (1024x600 to be exact) which is probably also why I can't use that resolution in grub2 when booting.
So my question is, is there a way to make it support this resolution and if yes how? Because when I boot up right now it goes from (what I assume to be) 640x480 (BIOS) to 800x600 (Grub2) to 1024x600 (Linux) which is somewhat annoying, I would prefer to already have the full 1024x600 resolution in Grub2 if possible.
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Well, the 915reshack made it possible for me to display the 1024x600 resolution but if possible I would like to avoid having to revert to such a hack.
Could it be due to the fact that I don't have early KMS enabled? I initially didn't have any modules in the mkinitcpio.conf listed but even after adding i915 as described it still lists the same resolutions (I have a GMA 3150 chip in my laptop).
However I'm also unable to run any games from the console (example error message is "Couldn't initialize SDL: No available video device", it works when I launch from the x server though), so maybe something else is the problem?
Perhaps the driver is not loading correctly before starting the x server or something like that, is there a way to check if the driver is running correctly?
Maybe I should also mention that this is a pretty fresh installation so not much has been custom-configured yet.
Last edited by Triver (2014-10-31 16:00:53)
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