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Re: ATI Rage 128 frambuffer questiosn



Thus spake Stan Brown:
> I have a machine with an ATI Rage 128 video card. This machine has potato +
> Progeny + 2.4.13 kernel. I have manged to get frambuffer working, but I
> can't figure out how to use anything other than the default resolution/font
> size. I managed to amke it use a higher denisty font briefly, during boot
> up by seting vga=8 in the lilo config, but later in the boot process it
> went back to 80x24. I suspect that I need to apend somethign, but i can;t
> fiugre out what.
> 
> The sugestions for ATI cards from the Frambuffer HOWTO (which seem to be
> for MACH 64 based card), don't seem to work. Looking in the kenrel sources?
> It appears that the driver I amusing is the aty128 driver.
> 
> Given that, what should I put in lilo.conf to get a smaller font/higher
> resolution.
> 
> -- 
> Stan Brown     stanb@awod.com                                    843-745-3154
> Charleston SC.
append="video=aty128fb:1024x768-16@60"
from my lilo.conf - takes the form video=driver:HxV-bpp@refresh
Good luck, 
Steve
-- 
I'm not proud.

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