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Re: full screen console under 2.6, + some small bugs



On Fri, 28 Nov 2003, Matt Price wrote:

> My main gripe is that whatever complex thing I had worked out in the
> past to get a full-screen display on my console is no longer working,
> so Im back to a tiny little squarei nthe middle of the screen.  Has
> anyone got the framebuffer thingy working in kernel 2.6?  Can you give
> me a rundown of what I need to do to make it work?
I configured this recently on my laptop. I've got kernel 2.6-test9. For
1024x768@24bpp I have the line
vga=792
in lilo.conf. You need also vesafb support in the kernel.

/Kasper



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