Re: fbset

[dman <dsh8290@rit.edu>]

On Thu, Sep 20, 2001 at 07:35:35PM -0400, Stephen Gran wrote:
| Thus spake dman:
| > 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.
| 
| I'm sorry, I can't help you there - I take it your getting nowhere with
| editing lilo?

Nope -- I don't use lilo <wink>.  I can set the mode _at boot time
only_ through configuring grub, but I wanted to be able to change it
without a reboot.

-D