Re: Help please, geting framebuffer working
On Tue, Dec 11, 2001 at 11:58:05PM -0500, Stan Brown wrote:
| On Tue Dec 11 19:41:19 2001 dman wrote...
| >On Tue, Dec 11, 2001 at 06:46:19PM -0500, Stan Brown wrote:
...
| >| 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.
Right. If you check the docs
(/usr/share/doc/kernel-doc-<version>/Documentation/fb/vesa.txt.gz)
you'll see that the "ask" only shows VGA modes (text console) in the
list. You need to choose a number not in the list (like 0x31A) to get
the framebuffer.
| Adding "video=vesa" made lilo fail to run, I also tried it in an
| append statment, still no framebuffer.
For lilo both vga= and video= should be in "append". I've also read
for older versions of lilo that it didn't handle hex numbers correctly
so you would need to translate that vga= into decimal for it.
| Is it possible that my Radeon cards aren't VESA 2.0 compliant?
Anything is possible, but I would expect every current card to be
compliant.
-D
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