Re: fbset

[Stephen Gran <gashuffer09@home.com>]

Thus spake dman:
> On Thu, Sep 20, 2001 at 04:47:18PM -0400, Stephen Gran wrote:
> | Thus spake dman:
> | > On Wed, Sep 19, 2001 at 09:03:09PM -0600, Dave Thayer wrote:
> | > | On Tue, Sep 18, 2001 at 05:10:55PM -0700, Vineet Kumar wrote:
> | > | > * Steve Gran (gashuffer09@home.com) [010918 16:23]:
> | > | [...]
> | > | > > for.  However, fbset 1024x760-60 works just fine.  Am i just feeding the
> | > |                    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ 1st clue!
> | > | If fbset works then you must not be using the vesafb driver, all you
> | > | would get is an error message with vesafb
> | > 
> | > What would allow fbset to work?  I am curios since I recently started
> | > using the framebuffer stuff.  I have an SiS6326 card so I think the
> | > vesafb driver is the only one I can use.
> | 
> | Hey check out this link - 
> | http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Framebuffer-HOWTO-5.html
> | It looks like you're right, the vesafb option is the one you want.  Good
> | luck with it.
> 
> I have and have read that doc.  I don't think it talks much about
> fbset though.  I seem to recall seeing fbset breifly mentioned
> elsewhere.  I was wondering what sort of setup would allow fbset to
> change the settings.

I'm sorry, I can't help you there - I take it your getting nowhere with
editing lilo?
Good luck,
Steve

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