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Re: What are framebuffer devices good for?



On Mon, Jul 08, 2002 at 02:00:48PM -0700, Bill Moseley wrote:
> would be nice to have full use of the screen without X.
This seems kind of strange to me; I rarely even start X. :)

> I'm not really clear how (or really what) to set my vga= setting in lilo to
> make it work.  lspci reports:
Have you checked your kernel configuration and enabled framebuffer
support? The configuration depends on your kernel-options, really.
Here's what I have in my GRUB's menu.lst: vga=0x305
video=atyfb:1024x768@60. For mode numbers, check the vesafb.txt file
in the kernel Documentation folder. 
Here's the relevant section of it:
_______________________________________________
So the table for the Kernel mode numbers are:

    | 640x480  800x600  1024x768 1280x1024
    ----+-------------------------------------
    256 |  0x301    0x303    0x305    0x307
    32k |  0x310    0x313    0x316    0x319
    64k |  0x311    0x314    0x317    0x31A
    16M |  0x312    0x315    0x318    0x31B
_______________________________________________

By the way, after I've settled that, I had to play a little with
fbset to make the best out of my monitor. 

This, however, does not concern X, as far as I know. I didn't have
problems with my old X setup, so it's up to you. 

andrej

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