Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 27 Jul 1998 13:13:32 +0000 | From | Sid Boyce <> | Subject | Re: VESA VGA Frame Buffer |
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I'm afraid this stuff is still in the realms of a mystery and I've had a good read of the docs and this list. On VGA=ask, I get 2 modes that are VESA (7) 0308 (128x25) and (8) 030A (132x43). With VGA_CONSOLE I get the old stream of message output and I've given the lilo prompt ... vga="ask,mode=0778" vga=vesa:redraw vga=ask Next try, I compiled a kernel without VGA_CONSOLE and gave it the command line vga=0778, at this point it goes to "Loading Linux......", I next get "Uncompressing Linux", then a black screen below, no logo and I can log in blind and fire up X. If I use "fbset -s", it reports "open /dev/fb0: Operation not supported by device", issued from an xterm, but I get the same on my other machine in VC mode, both cards report VESA VGA for vga=ask, this one is a stealth 3D 3000 4 Meg and a CL-5446 2 Meg on the other. dmesg gives ......... Linux version 2.1.111 (root@barrabas) (gcc version egcs-2.90.29 980515 (egcs-1.0 .3 release)) #4 Mon Jul 27 09:39:49 GMT 1998 Console: colour dummy device 80x25 But it doesn't look like an 80x25 screen, the font is quite small. The latest config I have set............ # CONFIG_VGA_CONSOLE is not set CONFIG_VIDEO_SELECT=y CONFIG_FB=y CONFIG_DUMMY_CONSOLE=y # CONFIG_FB_VGA is not set CONFIG_FB_VESA=y CONFIG_VIDEO_SELECT=y # CONFIG_FB_MDA is not set # CONFIG_FB_VIRTUAL is not set # CONFIG_FBCON_ADVANCED is not set CONFIG_FBCON_CFB8=y CONFIG_FBCON_CFB16=y CONFIG_FBCON_CFB32=y # CONFIG_FBCON_FONTS is not set CONFIG_FONT_8x8=y CONFIG_FONT_8x16=y Yours truly, truely flummoxed by this one, something I'm definitely missing the point of and constantly. I haven't been able to establish so far if these cards are VESA 2.0 or not as I don't have the dos disks around to hand. Regards -- ... Sid Boyce...Amdahl(Europe)...44-121 422 0375 ----------------------------------- Any opinions expressed above are mine and do not necessarily represent the opinions or policies of Amdahl Corporation.
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