Re: full screen console under 2.6, + some small bugs
On Thu, Dec 04, 2003 at 06:07:55PM +1100, Russell Coker wrote:
> On Thu, 4 Dec 2003 15:12, Matt Price <matt.price@utoronto.ca> wrote:
> > just to report in: this offers no improvement. To be honest I'm kind of
> > surprised... Anyway, with vesafb compiled into my kernel, and other
> > framebuffer modules left out, I get an error "/dev/fb: no such
> > device". Is vesafb supposed to attach to an fb0 device all by its
> > lonesome? Kaspar and others: what does fbset -i tell you? I think I
> > must be doing something wrong...
>
> To enable VESAFB on boot you have to put vga=X in your lilo.conf.
>
> EG "vga=791" for 1024x768x16bpp or "vga=788" for 800x600x16bpp.
>
> This is documented in linux/Documentation/fb/vesafb.txt
>
Yes yes, I know this. I get an error on boot -- "invalid mode" -- and
am aked to choose from 8 or 9 text-only modes. (should have said this
earlier) That is, as far as I can tell, VESAFB doesn't take command of
the framebuffer.
... I think Im going to give it up as a lost cause -- maybe sometime
down the road I'll figure ito ut!
thanks,
matt
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