Re: Help please, geting framebuffer working
On Tue, Dec 11, 2001 at 06:46:19PM -0500, Stan Brown wrote:
| I've just installed wood on a machine with an ATI Radeon LE video card. The
| I built a new kernel (2.4.16) using kernel-package.
|
| First I tried enabling the framebuffer Radeon support in the kernel, but
| the results were not so good. The first console gets messed up during the
| boot up messages, and winds up unuasble to log in on (lookes like it might
| get left in "raw" tty mode). Then if I run fbi, the colors of the displayed
| images are all wrong.
|
| Soem kind soul on this list advised me the thet the ATI Radeon framebuffer
| support is "very imature", so I decided to try the VESA framebuffer mode.
I tried the 'atyfb' driver with an ATI Rage P/M Mobility, but didn't
get anything.
| I enabled it in the kernel, and rebooted, but I did not get a frambuffer,
| juts plain old console.
|
| I've read the framebuffer HOWTO, but it seems a bit too old to help me.
It's not too old, mainly.
| What am I doing wrong?
# grep "^kernel" /boot/grub/menu.list
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.16-custom.1 root=/dev/hda4 read-only video=vesa vga=0x31A
notice the 'vga' argument (and the 'video' argument, but I don't think
it is necessary for VESA). Some of the modes are :
Video modes :
640 x 480 x 16 => 0x311
800 x 600 x 16 => 0x314
1024 x 768 x 16 => 0x317
1280 x 960 x 16 => 0x???
1280 x 1024 x 16 => 0x31A
1600 x 1200 x 16 => 0x31E
800 x 600 x 24 => 0x315
1024 x 768 x 24 => 0x318
1280 x 1024 x 24 => 0x31B
HTH,
-D
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