Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 27 Jul 1998 21:04:16 +0200 | From | Martin Mares <> | Subject | Re: VESA VGA Frame Buffer |
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> On bootup, I got the same "invalid mode number" message when I entered 0303, so > I selected (8) 030A and it all came up with the normal full screen of messages, > I didn't see the logo, may be it came up when I was distracted. > Now dmesg says for the first time .......... > Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 132x43 > fb0: VGA frame buffer device, using 32K of video memory
No, you have selected a _text_ mode, so the normal text mode driver got used.
Anyway, it seems your VGA doesn't support linear frame buffer :(
Have a nice fortnight -- Martin `MJ' Mares <mj@ucw.cz> http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~mj/ Faculty of Math and Physics, Charles University, Prague, Czech Rep., Earth "Immanuel doesn't pun, he Kant."
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