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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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