Re: vidcontrol modes for ATI ES1000

From: Daniel O'Connor <doconnor_at_gsoft.com.au>
Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2007 12:13:03 +0930
On Thu, 23 Aug 2007, Harald Schmalzbauer wrote:
> Does vidconsole (SC) rely on the VGA BIOS?
> If so probably it's not the best designed VGA BIOS.

AFAIK yes.

> Are there any other ways to get 800x600 Text console?
> The funny thing is that accessing the EFI shell(or even just booting)
> the board uses a higher resolution (800x600 I think), so it doesn't
> use the promoted mode itself!

Use X :)
(Goes a lot faster that VESA pixel displays)

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