On Tue, Jul 11, 2000 at 11:16:14AM -0600, Jeremiah Merkl wrote: > > :) I've got a Dell/Trinitron monitor, so it must just be more robust then > yours. fbset itself never caused the panic, it behaved fine. Mayhaps it's > an incompatibility between bash and the fb-driver? well its a 17" apple monitor so i know it can do many modes, more likly is im just not using fbset right or something like that. im pretty happy with 1024x768 so i am not putting much effort into messing with it. > I'm assuming that it crashes no matter what I switch back to, because of > the video mode...X or not, it doesn't like 1280x1024. probably, i think the framebuffer stuff does have interactions with X > > Mine doesn't go black, however it does seem to resync the videomode half > the time (monitor clicks and flickers like it's changing resolutions) yeah that is similar to what mine does, but the image goes away for about a second or two until it refreshes, there is just a slight `shimmer' sound. i have been told its due to the RAMDAC being reprogrammed making the monitor thing it needs to resync. > I figure it's the fb-driver then. And I'm not skilled enough to even > attempt to debug it. :) Anyone know if the 2.4 kernel tree behaves any > better? the aty128fb driver is a backport from 2.4, and not really much maintained AFAICS. the maintainer of the 2.4 driver was not really doing much on the 2.2 front. > Yep. That's what happens on mine too. Anyone know how to change the > default boot-up video mode? I tried playing with my yaboot additions > "video=aty128fb:vmode=24:cmode=32" but nothing I changed made any > difference. from what i have read about frambuffers that should be it but i have never had any luck either. really the main thing i would like to fix with this silly framebuffer (othe then the annoying resync on VC switches) is this big ugly blinking block cursor. its a blinking _ on sparcs just like the intel VGA, so why not on ppc ! -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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