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SubjectRe: Linux-2.1.129..
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

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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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