Re: Framebuffer settings
On Sun, Mar 05, 2000 at 04:19:22PM +0200, Denis J. Cirulis wrote:
> Hello !
>
> I have ATI AGP card,debian potato with compiled in atifb module. I read all the stuff in Framebuffer-HOWTO like :
>
> /etc/lilo.config
>
> vga=792
> append="video=matrox:...." and so on
>
> When i'm booting linux i see very nice penguin logo but my console is still 640x480-256 , not the mode i mentioned in lilo.
> After the boot process i can make fbset -a "1024x768-75" and i have very nice large console.
In LILO, you need to use the hex version of your setting. From looking at
Documentation/fb/matroxfb.txt in the kernel source, you want either
"vga=0x318" or it might be "vga=0x118" (which I assume is 1024x768 at
32bbp).
Ben
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