Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 17 Jul 1998 23:00:53 -0400 (EWT) | From | Alex Buell <> | Subject | framebuffer stuff in v2.1.109 |
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Hi guys,
I've been experimenting with the new fb stuff (namely fbvga & fbvesa) in v2.1.109 (haven't done this before - because I just didn't read the documentation properly - shoot me or something) tonight. Some problems comes to mind:
1) Something seems to be wrong with the console drivers menu in make menuconfig/xconfig - can't select the VESA stuff at all, can only select VGA. I can post config stuff if required. Just sticking in CONFIG_FB_VESA doesn't seem to work; tkconfig seems to ignore it and removes it when saving. This may be true for other items that I haven't seen in this area.
2) Messing with the VGA stuff, got this rather nice 132x25 text console, but unfortunately, I just noticed that this screwed up my Cirrus Logic 5429VLB 2MB card considerably - it does work in text mode but when starting up X, the whole 1280x1024@8bpp display looks messed up. Tried rebooting, but problem still persisted, even with different mode selections. This obviously needs fixing.. i.e total hard reset of graphic card required [I used to see this problem when booting from Windows95 (which was in 1024x768@16bpp) to Linux - this went away when I deleted Windows95 from my machine :o)].
3) Where's the boot logo? (is this connected in any way with the VESA stuff?) I did hear it was removed in 2.1.108 ("too bad to live"), but I thought a better one was put in.
4) The list of modes that comes up when lilo has VGA=ASK in it isn't terribly logical when I type in scan. How about clearly distinguishing the different modes available for VGA/VESA/BIOS et. al? Adding on the graphic resolutions/pixel depth would be cool and less confusing for the poor wee user [thankfully my monitor just cuts out if wrong frequencies are used - this is really a god send - you can tell by the light on it that changes to yellow if somehow you've selected a *bad* mode - avoids damage!]
I'd really like to help get it right. :o)
Cheers, Alex -- /\_/\ Legalise cannabis now! ( o.o ) Smoke some cannabis today! > ^ < Peace, Love, Unity and Respect to all.
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