ATI mach64 resolution?
Kam Leo
kam.leo at gmail.com
Thu Jan 13 20:53:38 UTC 2005
On Thu, 13 Jan 2005 14:20:11 -0600, Kenny Gow <kgfedora at swbell.net> wrote:
> Les Mikesell wrote:
> > On Thu, 2005-01-13 at 13:45, Aleksandar Milivojevic wrote:
> >
> >
> >>Check the settings for monitor. You probably have your monitor set to
> >>"generic" or something incorect. You will be shown only resolutions
> >>that both your graphics card *and* monitor support. If you are using
> >>Gnome, try selecting "System Settings -> Display" from GNOME menues,
> >>than click on "Hardware" tab (I guess this is the same GUI you already
> >>used). If your monitor is not listed, just select one from the "Generic
> >>CRT" or "Generic LCD" lists (in your case 1280x1024 one, I guess).
> >
> >
> > No: if I go to 256 colors it will go higher, but not at 'thousands of
> > colors'.
> >
[snip]
RESOLUTION = WIDTH x HEIGHT = 1280 x 1024 = 1310720
COLOR_DEPTH (256 colors) = COLOR_CHANNELS x BITS_PER_PIXEL = 3 x
BITS_PER_PIXEL = 3 x 8 bits_per_pixel = 3 bytes_per_pixel
RESOLUTION x COLOR_DEPTH <= VIDEO MEMORY
1280 x 1024 x 3 = 3,932,160 bytes <= 4 MB
Do the math!
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