more data on screen

[Janina Sajka]

Do you perhaps have a URL for this package SuperVgaTextMode? I don't
find it via Google--only about a handful of references that some folks
have used it.

Gene Collins writes:
> Hi Igore.  What you say is true, but you don't want to take chances. 
> You really don't want to have to buy a new monitor, right?  So unless
> you know, turn it off and be safe.
> 
> Gene
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> >Hi. Actually Gene, I think I have a minor correction to what you said earlier 
> about monitors.
> >On Fri, Nov 12, 2004 at 08:35:03AM -0600, Gene Collins wrote:
> >> 
> >> Hi all.  Actually, you may want to check out a package called
> >> SuperVgaTextMode.  It interactively sets the screen resolution on video
> >> cards, if the machine is not using a frame buffer device.  If your video
> >> chip supports it, you can get some really large screen sizes like
> >> 202x81.  Your mileage will very according to your video chip and what
> >> clock rates it supports.  Warning: Be *** V E R Y * CAREFUL!  *** 
> >> Setting a resolution with a clock rate not supported by your monitor can
> >> damage the monitor.  You have been warned!
> >
> >I think newer monitors, such as one that I have will drop the video signal ent
> irely once it figures out it can't properly display it. A message that says som
> ething like "no signal" is 
> >displayed. And then once I set the resolution to something the monitor could d
> isplay, the image came back on. As to whether or not the monitor is still diges
> ting the video signal in some way I 
> >am not sure, which is why I said "possible minor correction."
> >
> >> 
> >> Nevertheless, if you are like me and run with the monitor turned off,
> >> you can set the video card for whatever clock rate and resolution it
> >> will support.  Just don't expect to turn on the monitor, and if you do,
> >> reset to a supported clock and resolution first!
> >> 
> >> Gene
> >> 
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				Janina Sajka, Chair
				Accessibility Workgroup
				Free Standards Group (FSG)

janina at freestandards.org	Phone: +1 202.494.7040