Toshiba Satellite 2430, User Manual

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Display Controller and Modes
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Satellite 2430 Series
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Appendix E
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
Super VGA (SVGA), Extended Graphics Array (XGA), Super Extended
Graphics Array (SXGA), Super Extended Graphics Array plus (SXGA+) and
Ultra Extended Graphics Array (UXGA) support for the internal and
external LCD monitors.
A high-resolution external monitor connected to the computer can display
up to 2048 horizontal and 1536 vertical pixels at up to 64 K colours or
16M colours.
The display controller also controls the video mode, which uses industry
standard rules to govern the screen resolution and the maximum number
of colours 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 and SVGA modes, the
most widely used industry standards.
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