Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2007 16:53:42 +0100 From: Florent Thoumie <flz@FreeBSD.org> To: Yuri Pankov <yuri@darklight.org.ru> Cc: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: max resolution with vesa driver on amd64 system running FreeBSD 6.2 Message-ID: <469F8906.4050503@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20070719140938.GA1092@darklight.org.ru> References: <649370.47002.qm@web51110.mail.re2.yahoo.com> <20070719140938.GA1092@darklight.org.ru>
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