Re: fbset and vesa
On Sun, Dec 16, 2001 at 10:31:53AM +0100, Eduard Bloch wrote:
| #include <hallo.h>
| Olifuc@aol.com wrote on Sun Dec 16, 2001 um 04:20:50AM:
| > hi,
| > do i need the vesa stuff to run fbset in 1024x768 mode? Trying to
| > change from 640x480 on console up to 1024x768 produces the error
| > message that this mode is not allowed.
|
| Of course. VESAFB is bad designed and cannot change resolution after
| beeing enabled. You can only specify other boot params, something like
| vga=317.
Note that that number is base 16 (hexadecimal), thus you need 0x317
for it to be interpreted as base 16 instead of base 10.
=D
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