Re: fbset problem or how to change the res?
On Fri, 8 Mar 2002, Ron Farrer wrote:
> Ron Farrer (rbf@farrer.net) wrote:
> > Adding "offb:off" to the video line causes the offb to become the
> > primary fb (see below), which causes the display to go blank,
> > resulting in having to log in remotely and reboot the system.
> >
> > 'cat /proc/fb'
> > 0 OFfb /bandit/3Dfx,Voodoo3
> > 1 3Dfx Voodoo3
> >
> > 'cat /proc/cmdline'
> > root=/dev/sdb4 video=tdfx:vmode=16:cmode=2,noaccel,offb:off
> >
> > It doesn't matter where the "offb:off" is, it still has the same effect.
> >
> > I haven't tried the patch.. if I can't find another way to fix this
> > problem then I will...
>
> Unchecking "force video setting" and checking "no video driver" got me a
> working console again. It also gave me a working 1024x768 res on the
> console and in X! So I'm sorta working now... Now if I could just get
> the tdfx driver to work.
>
> Some info:
> 'cat /proc/cmdline'
> root=/dev/sdb4 video=tdfx:vmode=16:cmode=2,noaccel video=ofonly
>
> 'cat /proc/fb'
> 0 OFfb /bandit/3Dfx,Voodoo3
If you say `video=ofonly', the `video=tdfx...' don't matter, since no other
frame buffer devices will be initialized.
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
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