Living la video loca
I spent this afternoon tweaking my home computer. I've got some nice
stuff which is basically working but could be optimized more.
Case in point, I have a 32MB Diamond Viper V770 AGP video card which is
based on the Riva TNT chipset. I used SVGATextMode to set up my consoles
for 80x50. With a card like that I know I can do a lot better but try as
I might I could not get the dot clocks right. After some research I
decided to recompile my kernel with framebuffer support as that seems to
be the superior way of going about this. Now I have a fbcon-vga
module. I created the fb devices with MAKEDEV which seems to have worked
correctly. however when I use fbset--even as root--it tells me:
open /dev/fb0: No such device
ls -la /dev/fb0 looks like this:
crw--w--w- 1 root tty 29, 0 Jan 7 02:58 /dev/fb0
The module does not appear to get loaded. If I explicitly do an insmod it
still doesn't work.
How do I get my framebuffer working? (This is kernel 2.2.13 btw)
Next question, in XFree86 3.3.5 with KDE2 pre-release .debs compiled from
CVS on 12/30/99, I have the SVGA X server set up at 32bpp. However the
KDE control panel says the depth is 24bpp. Is this an Xserver problem, a
KDE problem, or is it normal?
Lastly, what combination of Mesa and other libraries do I need to play
quake optimally with this card?
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Jaldhar H. Vyas <jaldhar@debian.org>
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