Re: Low-Res modes?

On Tue, 4 Jun 2002 18:58:12 +0200
[email protected] (Steffen Hein) wrote:

> Back again, this time with a NM2093 (I just can't get rid of those NM's ;-)
> I'd like to have low-res modes (512x284, 400x300, 320x240, 320x200) but it 
> just doesn't work. 400x300 would be the most important and - if possible - 
> stretched over the screen (it's just *2 on a 800x600 screen so it would be a
> very nice mode). However, when I tried to config such modes, they don't 
> display correctly. Did anyone manage to get this right? Had the same problem > with the 2070 so if you managed this on another NM card, please also post it > here.
> The best thing I got up to now was a 400x300 mode stretched to 400x600 on the 
> left side of the display. Not very ideal :-(
> Any modelines or config hints?
> 
> The display is a 800x600 lcd, color depth is 16bpp.
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I also have this problem, on a NM2160.  I've noticed however that if you use the VESA driver these modes will work, so I think it's a bug in the neomagic driver, perhaps related to modeline detection.  Is there any way the neomagic driver could use the VESA mode detection thingy? :)

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