Re: Can't change initial video mode on a 7200

[Olaf Hering <olh@suse.de>]

On Mon, May 21, Craig S. Cottingham wrote:

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> I tried to set the initial video mode on my 7200/90 in quik.conf:

platinumfb can not change the video mode because it never parses the
video= line. It might be fixed in 2.4.+.
Use fbset instead.
Never use more that 8 bit with vmode 13.

--- linux-2.2.16.SuSE/drivers/video/fbmem.c     Sun Jul 30 14:52:41 2000
+++ linux-2.2.16.SuSE/drivers/video/fbmem.c     Thu Aug  3 12:51:54 2000
@@ -92,6 +92,8 @@
 extern void hpfb_setup(char *options, int *ints);
 extern void sbusfb_init(void);
 extern void sbusfb_setup(char *options, int *ints);
+extern void platinum_init(void);
+extern void platinum_setup(char *options, int *ints);
 extern void valkyriefb_init(void);
 extern void valkyriefb_setup(char *options, int *ints);
 extern void control_init(void);
@@ -183,6 +185,9 @@
 #ifdef CONFIG_FB_HP300
        { "hpfb", hpfb_init, hpfb_setup },
 #endif 
+#ifdef CONFIG_FB_PLATINUM
+        { "platinumfb", platinum_init, platinum_setup },
+#endif
 #ifdef CONFIG_FB_VALKYRIE
        { "valkyriefb", valkyriefb_init, valkyriefb_setup },
 #endif



Gruss Olaf

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