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  • Priest of the Order of the Butterfly
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    ausPPC
    Posts: 543 from 2007/8/6
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    I've got a non hi-res 15" powerbook that I'd like to register if MorphOS 3.2 will be able to support higher resolution external displays. If this is not happening, I'd prefer to register a system that can produce higher resolutions.

    btw lowendmac.com and similar sites report a difference in maximum resolution supported for an external display between hi-res and non hi-res 1.67GHz powerbooks. Is this a software, hardware or firmware limitation?

    On the topic of spec listing sites, they list my model as having 64MB but OS X and MorphOS show my powerbook as having 128MB graphics memory. Before I confirmed this I thought that might be the reason for the difference in maximum resolution...
    PPC assembly ain't so bad... ;)
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  • Yokemate of Keyboards
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    Jim
    Posts: 4977 from 2009/1/28
    From: Delaware, USA
    ?Non Hi-res Powerbooks have 64MB of vram and do not support the higher res modes of the 128MB vram version.
    I have one of these too, but I'm perfectly happy with the display limitation.
    "Never attribute to malice what can more readily explained by incompetence"
  • »24.03.13 - 00:31
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  • Priest of the Order of the Butterfly
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    ausPPC
    Posts: 543 from 2007/8/6
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    The non hi-res 17" powerbook is listed as having 128MB and still can't, apparently, produce resolutions beyond 2048x1536
    PPC assembly ain't so bad... ;)
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  • Yokemate of Keyboards
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    Andreas_Wolf
    Posts: 12438 from 2003/5/22
    From: Germany
    > The non hi-res 17" powerbook [...] still can't, apparently, produce resolutions beyond 2048x1536

    "The maximum resolution supported on an external display is 2560x1600 at millions of colors."
    http://www.everymac.com/systems/apple/powerbook_g4/specs/powerbook_g4_1.67_17.html
  • »24.03.13 - 07:30
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  • Yokemate of Keyboards
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    Andreas_Wolf
    Posts: 12438 from 2003/5/22
    From: Germany
    > Non Hi-res Powerbooks have 64MB of vram

    Apart from the non-hires 17" model with 128 MiB standard VRAM (as mentioned by ausPPC) there were also 128 MiB VRAM BTO options for non-hires 15" models:

    http://www.everymac.com/systems/apple/powerbook_g4/specs/powerbook_g4_1.67_15.html
    http://www.everymac.com/systems/apple/powerbook_g4/specs/powerbook_g4_1.5_15_2.html

    We discussed the latter one 2 years ago there:
    https://morph.zone/modules/newbb_plus/viewtopic.php?topic_id=7791&forum=11&start=13 :-)
  • »24.03.13 - 07:36
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  • Jim
  • Yokemate of Keyboards
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    Jim
    Posts: 4977 from 2009/1/28
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    Andreas would (no doubt) be correct on this.
    Its never been an issue with me as I don't have an external display that would be legible at these resolutions.

    Possibly when I move to a G5/9800 combo I'll look into upgrading my monitor.
    "Never attribute to malice what can more readily explained by incompetence"
  • »24.03.13 - 13:11
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  • Priest of the Order of the Butterfly
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    Doffo
    Posts: 508 from 2010/10/14
    From: Nevada
    I should feel bad since I only care to run 1440x900. 8-)
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  • »24.03.13 - 16:41
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