From: Neal Tucker <ntucker@vax.area.com>
  To  : ggi-develop@eskimo.com
  Date: Sun, 13 Sep 1998 21:58:38 -0700

Re: 968 success

Marcus Sundberg says:
> Neal Tucker wrote:
> > Marcus Sundberg says:
> > > Neal Tucker wrote:
> > > > Also, now that I've got graphics working, I am wishing for more
> > > > resolutions.  I can only do 640x400 and 640x480 (both work in 8/16/32
> > > > bits also).  Is this something that needs to be implemented still, or
> > > > am I just missing how to set things up?
> > >
> > > What monitor driver are you using?
> > 
> > Generic.  I'll try multisync and see how that works...
> 
> The whole purpose with the generic monitor driver is that you use
> the setmon util to set the parameters. Before you have done that
> you can't set any mode (well, currently you can, but that's just
> a hack ;)

Ok, multisync gave better results.  I hadn't really been paying
complete attention to the generic monitor driver discussion..  I
just got the impression that I should start using it.  Now that
you mention setmon, I'll figure out how to use it and see if it
lets me do the higher resolutions too.

On another topic, I previously described the problem I'm having
where the first column of text is on the other side of the monitor,
and I vaguely recall someone mentioning that that's how it looks
before the con2fbmap.  I recently noticed that the con2fbmap is
failing for me (EINVAL from the first ioctl).  I'm going to look
through the sources to see if I can figure out why this is, but
does anyone know offhand what would cause this?

-Neal Tucker