Re: X and netbsd/amiga

[mhitch%gemini.oscs.montana.edu@localhost (Michael L. Hitch)]

On Feb 14,  1:26pm, Ignatios Souvatzis wrote:
> build a kernel with less than 10 views (something like 4 is enough for
> the console and the X);
> 
> then you should be able to iteconfig the console it to bigger sizes, or to 
> tell the X server to use a bigger size.

  More likely, the reason is that the ioctl is unable to find a display
mode that fits the requested size.  The ioctl to set the new display
size returns NOMEM if the new display size can not be set.  This can
occur if there isn't enough chip memory available, but it will also
occur if there is no display mode available for the requested size.

> And: make the height less, to get out of the region for PAL modes. at
> 400 lines or so you should find a 60Hz mode.

  If you build a new kernel and remove the GRF_PAL option, you may be
able to get a 480 line display.  I haven't verified this, so I don't
know if it actually works.  With GRF_PAL, I think the maximum height for
ntsc-lace and dblNTSC is about 455 lines before the PAL mode is
selected.  On an AGA machine, this will be dblNTSC if the GRF_AGA
option was specified in the kernel config AND if the -A option was used
when booting the kernel.

Michael

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