Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 26 Jul 1998 17:30:17 -0700 (MST) | From | Adam Fritzler <> | Subject | Re: VESA VGA Frame Buffer |
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Same exact problem here. I'm using a #9 Imagine 128s2r2.
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On Mon, 27 Jul 1998, Iusty Pop wrote:
> After compiling and trying the 2.1.111 kernel for 2 days, I still can't > make it to boot into graphic mode with VESA Frame Buffer. My computer > is a 200MHz Pentium MMX, an Ali motherboard, 32MB SDRAM, 3D Labs > Permedia 2 graphics > chipset (the board is a Creative Labs Graphics Blaster Exxtreme > card with 4MB RAM). The bios is AMI Bios and I enabled some wierd > 'Primary Frame Buffer: 4MB' and 'VGA Frame Buffer: Enabled' options. If > I compile with VGA Frame Buffer, I see at boot (or when I load it as a > module): > fb0: VGA frame buffer device, using 32K of video memory > so it gets activated. When I pass a param to vesa (video=vesa:memmove) > it shows up in syslog, but it doesn't init vesa mode. Even when I > disable > VGA frame buffer and use only vesa, nothing. >[snip] > I tryed to boot into dos, load univbe 6.51 which has vbe 3.0 and > then with loadlin to boot with vga=??? but the also it doesn't work > right: > Invalid mode ID.
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