Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 24 Nov 1998 13:57:47 +0100 (CET) | From | Geert Uytterhoeven <> | Subject | Re: Linux-2.1.129.. |
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On Tue, 24 Nov 1998, Richard Gooch wrote: > Eric van Dijken writes: > > > > the vga=ask prompt takes hex numbers. vga=0x303 might work (hav'nt > > tried), > > > > if it does'nt use 771... > > > > > > Uy, I was asleep friday... Yes, I did put append="vga=771" in lilo. > > > The strange thing is that if I manually boot with vga=771, voila', it > > > works, and otherwise it does not work. Amazing. > > > > > Don't put it in your append line, just add it like the append line: > > > > image=/vmlinuz > > label=linux-fb > > root=/dev/sda1 > > vga=771 > > append="video=vesa:ypan" > > Well, every time I've tried this it doesn't work. I have a Diamond > Stealth S3968 card.
AFAIK most S3 BIOSes aren't VBE 2.0 compliant, hence you can't use vesafb.
Greetings,
Geert
-- Geert Uytterhoeven Geert.Uytterhoeven@cs.kuleuven.ac.be Wavelets, Linux/{m68k~Amiga,PPC~CHRP} http://www.cs.kuleuven.ac.be/~geert/ Department of Computer Science -- Katholieke Universiteit Leuven -- Belgium
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