Re: Help please, geting framebuffer working

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

On Thu Dec 13 01:59:04 2001 wrote...
>
>>>>>> "dman" == dman  <dsh8290@rit.edu> writes:
>
>  dman> | NO, joy there either. I assume you mean append="video=vesa vga=794",
>  dman> | right?
>
>  dman> Yeah.  I copy-n-pasted from above, but didn't look closely at that
>  dman> part.
>
>  dman> Have you tried a lower resolution?  The whole table of mode numbers is
>  dman> given in .../Documentation/fb/vesa.txt.gz.
>
>I think you can also use vga=ask, in which case you will get a choice
>of modes.
>

Well, I tried that (along with about a hundred other coombinations), and it
allowed me to choose a higher resolutin, but did not get the vesa
frambufffer working.

This is getting to be _very) frustrtating. I've been trying to get
frambuffer working corectly for about 3 days now :-(

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