Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Tue, 9 Oct 2001 19:24:59 -0500 | From | Steven Walter <> | Subject | Re: Framebuffer detection problems, 2.4.9 |
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On Tue, Oct 09, 2001 at 04:38:15PM -0700, Michael Peddemors wrote: > I seldom dive into the graphical end of things myself, but this one has > had me stumped for the last week and a half.. > > I have a working ThinClient setup, that loads it's kernel via tftpd and > mknbi, with the 'vga=ask' option.. > On one machine, with a Cirrus Logic card, (Cirrus Framebuffer support > compiled in) things work fine, but on all my other boxes with VESA > complaint cards, I cannot get it to use the VESA framebuffer, or > seemingly to detect the VESA devices with this kernel, although we can > on detect and pass modes using LILO on similar kernels. > > I have of course read as many how-to's as possible, and the svga.txt > file seems to indicate that if I use the vga=ask option, and then run > scan it should show all VESA modes as well, (It does detect it as a VESA > VGA card), but the /fb/vesafb.txt seems to indicate that it won't show > the modes..
It doesn't show the modes. You have to enter one yourself, or tell it to LILO. /fb/vesafb.txt has more information about the varying modes availible. Read the whole file if you haven't already. Be sure to add 0x200 as documented.
> I see that in video.S CONFIG_VIDEO_VESA is harddefined, but I cannot > quite understand why I cannot enter a VESA mode that works.. > I tried 313, 0313, and the decimal equivs 787 and 0787 but it keeps > returning that as an invalid mode.. This occurs on several machines, > all with recent video cards, that are VESA compliant, and listed as > compatible.. the motherboards all use recent BIOS's but still no joy.. > > I will accept help here, or can someone point me to a good mailing list > to work this out? > > -- > "Catch the Magic of Linux..." > -------------------------------------------------------- > Michael Peddemors - Senior Consultant > LinuxAdministration - Internet Services > NetworkServices - Programming - Security > Wizard IT Services http://www.wizard.ca > Linux Support Specialist - http://www.linuxmagic.com > -------------------------------------------------------- > (604)589-0037 Beautiful British Columbia, Canada > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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