Re: full screen console under 2.6, + some small bugs
On Thu, 4 Dec 2003 15:12, Matt Price <matt.price@utoronto.ca> wrote:
> just to report in: this offers no improvement. To be honest I'm kind of
> surprised... Anyway, with vesafb compiled into my kernel, and other
> framebuffer modules left out, I get an error "/dev/fb: no such
> device". Is vesafb supposed to attach to an fb0 device all by its
> lonesome? Kaspar and others: what does fbset -i tell you? I think I
> must be doing something wrong...
To enable VESAFB on boot you have to put vga=X in your lilo.conf.
EG "vga=791" for 1024x768x16bpp or "vga=788" for 800x600x16bpp.
This is documented in linux/Documentation/fb/vesafb.txt
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