ati (mach64) framebuffer
Can anyone give me some pointers on getting the ATI
framebuffer set-up?
I have a Dell Inspiron 7000, approx. 2+ years old,
with an ATI Rage LT Pro 2x AGP video card which, I
believe, is Mach64 based. I'm trying to get the
console framebuffer working.
I compiled the 2.4.9 kernel with the appropriate
console drivers added in and I changed lilo.conf per
the Framebuffer HOWTO. When I boot into this kernel,
the screen is roughly divided into 4 quarters, the
lower left hand corner being the primary one; the text
rolls from the bottom of this corner to the top of the
screen. The screen flickers and generally doesn't look
so good.
Any suggestions? Should I abandon the ATI framebuffer
and use the plain VESA one instead?
Richard
p.s. This is what I added to lilo.conf in the
appropriate kernel section:
append="video=atyfb:mode:1024x768"vga=792
p.p.s. The append bit in lilo.conf has no effect -- it
looks the same either way.
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