fedora-list Digest, Vol 11, Issue 182

[Robert Kubichek]

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 > Message: 5 Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2005 17:39:33 +0000 From: James 
Wilkinson > <james at westexe.demon.co.uk>
 > Subject: Re: ATI mach64 resolution?
 > To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list at redhat.com>
 > Message-ID: <20050113173933.GA3137 at howells.westexe.demon.co.uk>
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 > Les Mikesell wrote:
 > >> 1152x864 which seems like an odd setting?
 >
 >
 > 1152 x 864 = 995328. Add a bit for the card's internal usage, and you
 > can just nicely fit that into 1 MB if you have 8 bit colour, or 4 MB
 > if you have 32 bit colour. Besides, the numbers are fairly "round" in
 > decimal: they're both multiples of 32, and exactly half-way between
 > 1024 x 768 and 1280 x 960.
 >
 > Now 1280 x 1024, *that's* a strange setting. I never did understand
 > what a 5:4 ratio was doing among all those 4:3 ratios...
 >
 > James.
 >

My 19" LCD monitor's native resolution is 1280x1024 and it makes 
everything look great with the right settings (fonts ect. ).