Re: TGA card and X woes

[Edgar Denny <e.denny@ic.ac.uk>]

> e.denny@ic.ac.uk said:
> 
> > After I rebooted, the console mode came back OK, but I immediately noted
> > something different: on boot up of the kernel ( 2.2.10 on potato ) no
> > picture of Tux appeared in the top left hand corner.
> 
> Are you saying that the framebuffer didn't even detect the card? If so, did
> the console work at all?

No, the console works fine. But where Tux's picture should be there's a 
blank area on the screen. This gave me some concern even before I starting
playing with X.

> 
> > What does this actually mean? That my card has not been detected or
> > that I need to play around with my ModeLines some more?
> 
> Send me the output of 'lspci -v'. (Install the pciutils package if you
> don't have lspci.)
> 

Here's the output:

00:06.0 SCSI storage controller: Symbios Logic Inc. (formerly NCR) 53c810 (rev 02)
        Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 11
        I/O ports at 8000
        Memory at 0000000004200000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable)

00:07.0 Non-VGA unclassified device: Intel Corporation 82378IB [SIO ISA Bridge] (rev 03)
        Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0

00:0b.0 Ethernet controller: Digital Equipment Corporation DECchip 21040 [Tulip] (rev 23)
        Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 15
        I/O ports at 8800
        Memory at 0000000004201000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable)

00:0d.0 VGA compatible controller: Digital Equipment Corporation PBXGB [TGA2] (rev 22)
        Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 10
        Memory at 0000000008000000 (32-bit, prefetchable)
        Expansion ROM at 00000000000c0000

Thanks,

Edgar.