Toshiba Qosmio G30 PQG31C-HD202EF Users Manual Canada; English - Page 245

Qosmio G30 Appendix B Display Controller and Modes Display controller The display controller interprets software commands into hardware commands that turn particular parts on the screen on or off. As indicated below, there are two types of LCD Internal Panels. Various video modes can be displayed on each LCD Internal panel. Refer to the table on the next page which describes in detail supported video modes. ■ 17" WXGA+, 1440 horizontal × 900 vertical pixels ■ 17" WUXGA, 1920 horizontal × 1200 vertical pixels Because of the LCD's increased resolution, lines may appear broken in DOS mode. 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 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 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. User's Manual B-1