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From: dawes@physics.su.OZ.AU (David Dawes)
Subject: Re: [Q] 1600x1200 Virtual in Mono mode?
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In article <CoCBCt.KrK@das.harvard.edu> aelia@endor.harvard.edu (Al Elia) writes:
>I have a Trident tvga 9000 video card w/ 512k, and I am running the
>XF86_Mono server. I am trying to get it to use a virtual screen of size
>1600x1200 (which the Mono server man page says is possible) but I cannot
>seem to get a virtual screen larger than 1152x900. If I try a larger
>screen and startx, the screen flickers, then drops back to text mode.
>anyone have any idea why this is happening?

It is only possible if you have 1MB of video memory.  The Mono server
can access only one quarter of the video memory because it uses one
plane of a 4-plane grahics mode.

David
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