High resolution on i855 external CRT

[Alex Deucher]

On Fri, 04 Feb 2005 11:25:56 -0500, Andrew Barr <barr.156 at osu.edu> wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-02-03 at 23:06 -0500, Alex Deucher wrote:
> > this is only possible if the bios supports the mode you want to use.
> 
> What command can I use to find out the modes supported by the BIOS? I've
> tried "vbetest" and "855resolution -l" (before doing any editing) and
> the mode I want to use is listed in both. If 1280x1024 is a BIOS-
> supported mode (I don't care too much about refresh rate or bit depth at
> this point), what is the proper xorg.conf configuration? Thanks for your
> help.
> 

To use the mode, just set add it to the screen section of your config
along with any other modes you want to use.  see man xorg.conf.  you
may have to use the monitorlayout option to force the output to the
crt port.


Alex