From: hans@mo.hobby.nl (Hans Oey) Subject: Re: 1280x1024 VGA for Linux/X386 Date: Mon, 21 Jun 1993 20:23:04 GMT
d1dd@dtek.chalmers.se (Daniel Deimert) writes:
>In <1vplgq$jde@news.cs.tu-berlin.de> wolfp@cs.tu-berlin.de (Wolf Pfannenstiel) writes:
>>Does anybody know a VGA that supports 1280x1024 resolution at
>>> 70 HZ refresh rate, which is supported by Linux/X386?
>>EISA, LocalBus or ISA will all be ok.
>Compaq's new QVISION 1280/I (for ISA) or QVISION 1280/E is supported
>in XFree86-1.3. 135MHz dot clock, 2MB RAM. (which gives you 16M colours
>in 640x480. Neat!)
> Maximum resolution is 1280x1024, and QVISION is a superset of AVGA.
AVGA is supported, because I needed a driver for my
Compaq LTE Lite/25c. The local Compaq distributor
couldn't tell me anything about the AVGA chipset,
but I got the specs from someone in the US. From
what he told me, I wouldn't be surprised if the
driver works (non-accel.) for QVISION, but only
for 800x600 at 41.5 MHz. That's as far as my notebook
will go on an external monitor. XFree only supports
256 colors.
Hacking the AVGA driver on a 386SL with 120 Mb
hard disk was a bit of a challenge. Perhaps I
will even add bitblitter support for the AVGA
in the next release. Don't expect me to work
on QVISION accelerators. A cheap S3 card on
local bus is good enough for me and probably
well supported. While it would give me
some pleasure to use my own driver, I'm not
interested in buying expensive Compaq cards
for my desktop clone.