vesa and 2560x1440

basteon basteon at gmail.com
Mon Oct 13 02:37:55 PDT 2014


hello,
I use 2.3.3 vesa xorg driver.
But with radeon kernel driver I got black screen and nothing more.
Just after I make modprobe -av radeon
I use  GIGABYTE GA-E350N board with AMD Radeon HD 6310.

On 10/12/14, Adam Jackson <ajax at nwnk.net> wrote:
> On Sat, 2014-10-11 at 11:22 +0000, basteon wrote:
>> hi all,
>> I use Xorg version 1.16.0.
>> This version supports such(2560x1440) dimentions with vesa driver?
>
> It's not a function of the X server version.  It's (partially) a
> function of the vesa driver version; before vesa 2.3.0 the driver would
> reject modes wider than 2048 even if the firmware claimed to support
> them.  2.3.0 and later don't have that bug.
>
> But the vesa driver can only support modes that the video BIOS actually
> advertises, which varies per card.  If your VBIOS doesn't support that
> size, consider using something better than vesa.  Which is actually
> pretty good advice in any case.
>
> - ajax
>
>


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