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Re: What fake display adapter do you use?

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On Sat, 29 Jan 2011 14:23:37 UTC in comp.os.os2.programmer.misc, Jonathan de 
Boyne Pollard <J.deBoynePollard-newsgroups@NTLWorld.COM> wrote:
 
> > PCI Class Display, type VGA
> > Address 0 is a Memory Address (anywhere in 0-4Gb, Prefetchable) : 
> > E0000000h
> >
> 
> And your X server log tells me that the frame buffer can be laid out as 
> 16 bits per pixel (in RGB 5.6.5 form).  So all that I'm missing, as far 
> as hardware information is concerned (the VGA register programming is 
> another story), is the frame buffer size.  I'm hoping that your lspci 
> -vvv will tell us that.

There was nothing in the lspci info that didn't already appear in the pciscan 
output. That's why I dug out the X server log instead as it appeared to have 
more info in it.  VBox does let you set the size of the video memory so maybe 
that's what you're after? If so then it varies according to user settings.

-- 
Trevor Hemsley, Brighton, UK
Trevor dot Hemsley at ntlworld dot com

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Re: What fake display adapter do you use? Jonathan de Boyne Pollard <J.deBoynePollard-newsgroups@NTLWorld.COM> - 2011-01-29 14:23 +0000
  Re: What fake display adapter do you use? "Trevor Hemsley" <Trevor.Hemsley@mytrousers.ntlworld.com> - 2011-01-29 09:28 -0600
    Re: What fake display adapter do you use? Jonathan de Boyne Pollard <J.deBoynePollard-newsgroups@NTLWorld.COM> - 2011-01-30 18:16 +0000

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