Re: Help please, geting framebuffer working

[Josh McKinney <forming@home.com>]

On approximately 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.
> 
I have vga=792 set in lilo.conf, not in the append section!

Then in the append section you need something like this:

for vesa : append="video=vesa:mtrr:pmipal:pro:ywrap"

or for radeon : append="video=radeonfb:1024-768-32@76"

I use rivafb with the above line, but from looking at the source it uses modedb also.  There is
also Documentation in the kernel source that tells you how to do all of this.  8)

Josh
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