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Re: what is vesa error -6



i found S3 option. you have to select the "Prompt for development"
option so that S3 will show up. didn't notice this before.

now i have 1024x768 console resolution! :-)


On Sun, 30 Jan 2005 10:28:23 +0300, Rino Mardo <joroxx@gmail.com> wrote:
> i checked and there are no typos. what i did noticed was that the
> 2.6.10 kernel doesn't have a selection for the S3 video adapter which
> this laptop is using. i see selections for ATI, Matrox, but not S3.
> 
> maybe i should look in that direction.
> 
> 
> On Sat, 29 Jan 2005 19:32:34 +0100, Georg Wittenburg
> <georg.wittenburg@gmx.net> wrote:
> > On Saturday 29 January 2005 16:12, Rino Mardo wrote:
> > > probe of vesafb0 failed with error -6
> >
> > The last time I saw this it was due to a typo in the vga boot parameter. Maybe
> > you should doublecheck that one, and possibly the video parameter, too.
> >
> > Regards,
> >    Georg
> >
> > --
> > Georg Wittenburg
> > http://page.mi.fu-berlin.de/~wittenbu/
> >
> >
> >
> 
> --
> Rino Mardo <joroxx@gmail.com>
> Registered Linux user #93359
> 
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> 


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