Questions tagged [vesa]
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Why would Quake run slowly in DOS on a modern, 2017 i5 CPU?
I noticed back in the DOS gaming era that DOS games ran slowly in hi-res modes. I was surprised to discover that this could be true on a modern machine.
I booted a 2017 i5 7200u (I think) laptop into ...
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What driver does Linux use for generic UEFI video
Let's say I don't have the vendor specific GPU driver on the Linux distro. What is the generic driver that's used when booted in UEFI mode? I know it's not VESA. I checked the DRM github page and can'...
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Can a computer display output without a Vesa/VGA compatible card
A while back I got into an argument with someone over whether a computer without either a discrete or integrated graphics solution (Ryzen in this situation) could display output from the motherboard's ...
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How to change brightness in FreeBSD?
I installed FreeBSD 10.3 stable on my HP laptop and installed Mate desktop, but I can not change laptop's brightness.
I used xrandr, xbacklight, redshift and they did not work. I loaded acpi_video ...
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Are VESA drills always exactly centered?
Let's say I have a 27" display with a 100×100 mounting and I'll buy another 27" display with a mounting. Then I have a display mount with two arms which are not individually height adjustable.
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Use only 2 screws for VESA mount
I bought a used aoc i2369vm, and when i checked the back of the screen, the top 2 vesa mount holes has no "screw holes" (i dont know the technical name of these), and i guess they fell inside the ...
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Buying a pivot monitor, what to look for? [closed]
I recently fall in love with the double pivot(portrait) monitor setups for coding.
I checked monitors with pivot stands, which turned out to be unnecessarily expensive. I want to buy two basic ...
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Ubuntu 11.10 ATI Drivers vesa park
This is probably not an issue, from all I can get it seems my hardware and drivers are properly installed. However when I go to system settings -> system info -> graphics. I get
Driver: VESA:PARK.
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How can I mount my non-VESA display on a VESA arm?
I have a non-VESA 21" LCD display from 2003, and I want to put it on a VESA arm. I figured I would at least find some sort of overpriced industrial solution for this, but so far I've found absolutely ...
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How do you go from VESA 100x100 to VESA 200x200?
None of the adapter brackets or plates I've tried handle the VESA 200x200 end correctly. The holes aren't large enough for the standard VESA 200x200 M8 screws, which seems really odd.
Background: I'...
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Monitors: going from VESA 100x100 to VESA 200x200 - adapter plates don't "adapt"? [closed]
This seems so incredibly simple, but after 6 months I still haven't found good solutions. Everything thinks this should be possible, but turns out to be quite odd.
Monitor arm with VESA 100x100 (and ...
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How can I get 132 column display in DOS 6.22?
I'm using pure DOS 6.22 within Microsoft Virtual PC 2007 and everything works perfectly, except I can't change my display mode from 80 columns to 132. I tried MODE CON: COLS=132 and DOS complained ...
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Quick Release mounts for VESA/monitor mounting?
What I've found out so far online:
I know about the various hole patterns, monitors tend to be 75x75 or 100x100mm square patterns. TVs that you might use for a larger monitor might be 200x100.
As ...
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Should I get a monitor that has a vertical pivoting stand or just get a vertical VESA stand? [closed]
I'm thinking a monitor that pivots vertically. Unfortunately, I haven't seen many options, so I thought it might be better to just get a VESA compatible monitor and a VESA stand that pivots ...
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Where can I learn all about the PC Video BIOS?
I've learned that one reason some computers don't work with an LCD monitor's native resolution is that certain specific resolutions can be blocked by something in the Video BIOS called the "Mode ...
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