From: wlieftin@cs.vu.nl (Liefting W) Subject: Re: vgaset and trident card? Date: Mon, 10 May 1993 10:04:53 GMT
dd435157@longs.LANCE.ColoState.Edu (Dan Doner) writes:
>Hello all. I've been told that vgaset works with tvga8900c chipsets. I've installed
>XFree86-1.2 and have had no luck getting 1024x768 and would really like to give vgaset
>a try, except all it does is core dumps. It is setuid root. Any help would be greatly
>appreciated.
>Thanks,
>Dan
One think I can think of: How much video mem do you have?
For 1024x768 (256 color!) you need 1 meg video ram ( To be precise:
1024x768 bytes = 768 Kb). If you have only 512K (Like me) you can only
run 800x600 (I run 800x600 with 800x700andabit virtual)
Wouter.