Display Controller And Modes; Video Modes - Toshiba Satellite M30-SP350 User Manual

Satellite M30 Series

Display Controller and Modes

Display controller
The display controller interprets software commands into hardware
commands that turn particular pels on or off.
The controller is an advanced Video Graphics Array (VGA) that provides
Wide Extended Graphics Array (WXGA) support for the internal LCD and
external monitors.
The WXGA screen consists of 1280 x 800 pixels.
A high-resolution external monitor connected to the computer can display
up to 2048 horizontal and 1536 vertical pixels at 16 M colors.
The display controller also controls the video mode, which uses industry
standard rules to govern the screen resolution and the maximum number
of colors that can be displayed on the screen.
Software written for a given video mode will run on any computer that
supports the mode.
The computer's display controller supports all VGA and SVGA modes, the
most widely used industry standards.

Video modes

The computer supports video modes defined in the tables below. If your
application offers a selection of mode numbers that do not match the
numbers on the table, select a mode based on mode type, resolution,
character matrix, number of colours and refresh rates. Also, if your
software supports both graphics and text modes, the screen display may
appear to operate faster using a text mode.
User's Manual
Satellite M30 Series
Display Controller and Modes
Appendix D
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