Re: fbset

[dman <dsh8290@rit.edu>]

On Thu, Sep 20, 2001 at 04:47:18PM -0400, Stephen Gran wrote:
| Thus spake dman:
| > On Wed, Sep 19, 2001 at 09:03:09PM -0600, Dave Thayer wrote:
| > | On Tue, Sep 18, 2001 at 05:10:55PM -0700, Vineet Kumar wrote:
| > | > * Steve Gran (gashuffer09@home.com) [010918 16:23]:
| > | [...]
| > | > > for.  However, fbset 1024x760-60 works just fine.  Am i just feeding the
| > |                    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ 1st clue!
| > | If fbset works then you must not be using the vesafb driver, all you
| > | would get is an error message with vesafb
| > 
| > What would allow fbset to work?  I am curios since I recently started
| > using the framebuffer stuff.  I have an SiS6326 card so I think the
| > vesafb driver is the only one I can use.
| 
| Hey check out this link - 
| http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Framebuffer-HOWTO-5.html
| It looks like you're right, the vesafb option is the one you want.  Good
| luck with it.

I have and have read that doc.  I don't think it talks much about
fbset though.  I seem to recall seeing fbset breifly mentioned
elsewhere.  I was wondering what sort of setup would allow fbset to
change the settings.

-D