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Topic: Help, no 1280x1024 on VIA EPIA M10000, Can't get higher resolutions to work

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Posted: April 18 2006,20:55

I am a DSL n00b, but learning as fast as I can. The most "annoying" problem right now is that I can't seem to get 1280x1024 resolution working on my VIA EPIA M10000 system.

I am using a 17" LCD which has a native resolution of 1280x1024, but DSL seems to default to 1024x768. When I crank up the resolution (with XVESA using the little GUI application of different resolution buttons) the monitor stays at 1024x768 but the desktop seems to get larger as I can no longer see the system stats, pager, etc, anything that was on the bottom or right edges of the screen seems to dissapear.

For what it's worth, I use 1280x1024x24 on Debian Sarge with this same system and the generic vesa xfree86 drivers.

roberts

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Posted: April 18 2006,21:01

The Xvesa GUI simply captures the output of the command

Xvesa -listmodes

Which is the list of video modes supported by the TinyK Xvesa server in DSL

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Posted: April 18 2006,21:08

If the server claims it can do 1280x1024, why doesn't it actually work? Is there a different, more proper step for enabling 1280x1024 on a VIA EPIA M system?

safesys

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Posted: April 18 2006,23:03

is there any reason you can't use XFree86 in DSL too?

brentmoore Offline

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Posted: April 18 2006,23:06

I think the solution might be to use X.org and the OpenChome drivers to make the most of my VIA EPIA M and its onboard graphics. I could even get OpenGL working that way. Might be a really nutty challenge getting all of that to fit in a small flash drive, but worthwhile if it could be pulled off.

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