Bug#307459: kernel-image-2.6.11-1-686: tridentfb fails to set correct resolution at boot
could you take a look please at belows bug report,
regarding tridentfb.
from a quick look at the bk-commit-list i didn't
see a patch that could have fixed that inbetween since 2.6.11,
bu of course i may be wrong. thanks for your feedback.
On Tue, 03 May 2005, Marco Presi (Zufus) wrote:
> Package: kernel-image-2.6.11-1-686
> Version: 2.6.11-3
> Severity: normal
>
> Hi,
>
> according to documentation shipped with kernel sources
> (kernel-sources-.../Documentation/fb/tridentfb.txt), it should be
> possible to set virtual consoles resolution using tridentfb driver.
>
> I used this (and many other) parameters:
>
> video=tridentfb:1024x768,bpp=16
>
> The tridentfb is loaded, during the boot, but the resolution is
> always set to 640x480 and the screen is broken.
>
> Launching
>
> "fbset 1024x768-60"
>
> after login, solves the problem. However, the switch "-a" of fbset
> seems not to work.
>
> I tried this on a laptop with a Trident CyberBlade XPA1i.
>
> dmesg related output is:
>
> tridentfb: framebuffer size = 16384 Kb
> tridentfb: 0000:01:00.0 board found
> tridentfb: 1024x768 flat panel found
> tridentfb: fb0: Trident frame buffer device 640x480-8bpp
> Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 80x30
>
>
> Ciao Ciao
>
> Marco
>
>
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: 3.1
> APT prefers testing
> APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable')
> Architecture: i386 (i686)
> Kernel: Linux 2.6.11-1-686
> Locale: LANG=it_IT@euro, LC_CTYPE=it_IT@euro (charmap=ISO-8859-15) (ignored: LC_ALL set to it_IT@euro)
>
> Versions of packages kernel-image-2.6.11-1-686 depends on:
> ii coreutils [fileutils] 5.2.1-2 The GNU core utilities
> ii initrd-tools 0.1.78 tools to create initrd image for p
> ii module-init-tools 3.2-pre1-2 tools for managing Linux kernel mo
>
> -- no debconf information
>
>
--
maks
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