Catch-22 : wide monitor

Sat Dec 27 04:22:19 UTC 2008

On Fri, 2008-12-26 at 18:22 -0500, Christopher K. Johnson wrote:
>  
> ... "linux vga=792" or some other 
> vesa mode you like for your hardware.

I've often wondered: where are these magic numbers documented, or how
can they be decoded to figure out what to use with, say, a 1280x800 or
1280x1024 or other resolution?

TIA.
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                Matthew Saltzman

Clemson University Math Sciences
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http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs