resolution low

Wolfgang wolfgang at rpi.net.au
Fri May 7 17:01:13 UTC 2004


On Sat, 2004-05-08 at 02:36, Mark Gordon wrote:
> The Cirrus Logic GD5480 Card has 4 Mb and under windows and Mandrake 
> supports 1024x768
>   Capsuna
> 
> Wolfgang wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, 2004-05-07 at 08:29, Mark Gordon wrote:
> > 
> >>Hi guys, I have an old computer (266) with a Cirrus Logic GD5480 
> >>controller video card. I install Fedora Core 2 Test3 and everything run 
> >>smooth but the video resolution. I’m stock on 640x480. I change in the 
> >>XF86Config to 1024x768 but nothing change. Please help.
> >>  Thanks
> >>  Capsuna
> >>
> > 
> > How much memory does the Cirrus Logic GD5480 Card have?? (I'd say
> > possibly only 1 or 2MB) Maybe it's maximum resolution is only 800x600.
> > So if that's the case, the video cards memory is limiting the maximum
> > resolution.
> > 
> > Wolf

Well then you may need to reduce the colour depth to 16 or even 8bit's.

Wolf






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