Re: Help please, geting framebuffer working

["Stan Brown" <stanb@awod.com>]

On Tue Dec 11 19:41:19 2001 dman wrote...
>
>On Tue, Dec 11, 2001 at 06:46:19PM -0500, Stan Brown wrote:
>| I've just installed wood on a machine with an ATI Radeon LE video card. The
>| I built a new kernel (2.4.16) using kernel-package.
>| 
>| First I tried enabling the framebuffer Radeon support in the kernel, but
>| the results were not so good. The first console gets messed up during the
>| boot up messages, and winds up unuasble to log in on (lookes like it might
>| get left in "raw" tty mode). Then if I run fbi, the colors of the displayed
>| images are all wrong.
>| 
>| Soem kind soul on this list advised me the thet the ATI Radeon framebuffer
>| support is "very imature", so I decided to try the VESA framebuffer mode.
>
>I tried the 'atyfb' driver with an ATI Rage P/M Mobility, but didn't
>get anything.
>
>| I enabled it in the kernel, and rebooted, but I did not get a frambuffer,
>| juts plain old console.
>| 
>| I've read the framebuffer HOWTO, but it seems a bit too old to help me.
>
>It's not too old, mainly.
>
>| What am I doing wrong?
>
># grep "^kernel" /boot/grub/menu.list
>kernel      /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.16-custom.1 root=/dev/hda4 read-only video=vesa vga=0x31A

If I do "vag=ask" in lilo.conf, than it does stop and prompt me for a
resolutin, however, I still don;t get framebuffer. Adding "video=vesa" made
lilo fail to run, I also tried it in an append statment, still no
framebuffer.

Is it possible that my Radeon cards aren't VESA 2.0 compliant? 

If so, can anyone point me to a place to talk to the Radeon frambuffer
developers?

I've got 6 of these cards, and i don't want to have to buy 6 more cards :-(


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