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User’s Manual B-1
Display Controller and Modes
Appendix B
Display Controller and Modes
Display controller
The display controller interprets software commands into hardware
commands that turn particular picture elements (pels) on or off.
The controller is an advanced Video Graphics Array (VGA) that provides
Graphics Array (XGA) support for the internal LCD and external monitors.
The following is available:
■ 13.3", 1280 horizontal × 800 vertical pixels
A high-resolution external monitor connected to the computer can display
up to 2048 horizontal and 1536 vertical pixels at 16 million colors.
(Depends on the model you purchased.)
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 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 modes, the most widely
used industry standards.
This series are equipped with Mobile Intel
®
965 Express display adaptors.
The video modes supported by the display chipset are shown in following
tables.
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 colors 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.
If you are running some applications (for example a 3D application or video
playback and so on), you may see some disturbance, flickering or frame
dropping on your screen. If that occurs, adjust the resolution of display,
lowering it until the screen is displayed properly.