On Mon, 24 Apr 2006 21:38:27 +0200, Joel CARNAT <joel@carnat.net> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I did configure my XFree86 (from NetBSD 3.99.17) to use the vesa driver
> (rather than nv) with my GeForce2 MX (64Mo of memory). Since then, I
> can't go above "1024x768" (when I can do 1280x1024 with the nv driver).
> 
> The XFree86 logs seems to indicate the card knows some "1280x1024" modes
> but at the end, X claims not to know any.
> 
> Is there a special thing to do to enable resolution above 1024x768 with
> the vesa driver ? Log and Conf are attached.
> 
I had to switch to xorg on some of my machines to deal with similar issues.

		--Steven M. Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb