Framebuffer aty128fb - halfway

[Imre Vida <vida@uni-freiburg.de>]

i compiled kernel-2.2.19 to set up framebuffer dev.
during boot up kernel recognizes the card properly and
sets the default mode with 80x30 console screen.

so far good, however, i would love to use some xxx x yyy console
after all this is why i started this job on the first place. 
so i started to play with fbset and lilo append
with some funny outcome:

1) lilo append:
i tried several different cmdline versions eg.:
video=aty128fb:mode:1024x768,...
video=aty128fb:xres:1024,yres:768,....
or 
video=aty128fb:1024x768-8@60 as suggested in the kernel-2.4.4
documentation of aty128
with "vga=792" 
the kernel boots and sets fb again and again to the default
640x480...

2) fbset: 
i can set any mode defined in /etc/fb.modes and the console
first looks OK  and works OK in a pure "forward" mode 
but if i start editing or searching back in the  history 
the cursor disappears and editing do not show up

on the other hand, midnight commander works absolutely fine and looks
gorgeous ;-)


can anyone, please, tell me what could be the problem?


thanks,

imre