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Re: console-'resolution' on sparc



On Wed, Jul 26, 2000 at 07:25:32PM +0200, Taco IJsselmuiden wrote:
> > Kernel version is fine. Question is, what do you have defined in
> > /etc/fb.modes for that 640x480 mode? I suggest you look at the example
> > modes for (I assume ATI Mach64) in /usr/share/doc/fbset/.
> well, I'm using the 'default' /etc/fb.modes, because I wanted to try it,
> before customizing... This means my /etc/fb.modes for 640x480-60==example
> ;))
> I looked at them, before trying, but because they were the same.......
> I'm actually wondering at the 'ioctl FBIOPUT_VSCREENINFO: Invalid
> argument' output...
> even when adding my current fbset -v output to /etc/fb.modes and trying to
> set it to that mode (1136x864-102), it produces the same output ;(
> 
> BTW, it's a bwtwo, for what it's worth...

Some of the lines might not be usable in the fb.modes file (weird I know,
but there it is). I'm not sure about mode values for bwtwo, check the
modes use by the X server, they are compatible.

Ben

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