On Fri, Jan 27, 2006 at 11:46:21PM -0600, D wrote: > The system has an onboard ATI RAGE card. > > I'd like to to use the atyfb for the console. > > The one problem I'm hacing I can't send the options for resolution > to the driver. > > I can't seem to be able to send options to the driver. > > It ships as a module. > > So I looked to see what options it will take: > # modinfo atyfb > filename: /lib/modules/2.6.8-2-686-smp/kernel/drivers/video/aty/atyfb.ko > license: GPL > vermagic: 2.6.8-2-686-smp SMP preempt 686 gcc-3.3 > depends: cfbfillrect,cfbimgblt,cfbcopyarea > > > So there are no options I can send it. > > Is there a way around this besides compiling my own kernel with it > compiled in? > > This would appear to me to make the atyfb unusable unless the defaults > are what you want. Hi, I have an old ATI Mach64 PCI card in my server, so it's not the same which you have, but it also uses atyfb. I have compiled it into the kernel, so I pass the options to it as kernel parameters in grub's menu.lst. Anyway, according to the 2.6.15 source, the resolution is set with mode option: MODULE_PARM_DESC(mode, "Specify resolution as \"<xres>x<yres>[-<bpp>][@<refresh>]\" "); So, of course you need to load the atyfb (and fbcon) module with initrd, so it is available early in the boot. To pass the options to atyfb, just edit a file in the /etc/modprobe.d/ directory (name it for example video). Put a line: options atyfb mode=1024x768-8@75 in it. Of course use the resolution/bpp/refresh you want. HTH, Simo -- :r ~/.signature
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