Re: 2.6.26 + vga=791

[Hugo Vanwoerkom <hvw59601@care2.com>]

David Witbrodt wrote:
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> > I reported here on 5/18/2008 that I couldn't use vga=791 with the Debian 
> > 2.6.25 kernel, but *could* with the 2.6.25 from kernel.org.
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> > Same issue with 2.6.26: vga=791 gets "undefined video mode". Yet it 
> > works fine with 2.6.26 from kernel.org, so it is clearly a Debian issue.
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> > In the 2 months that have expired noone has been able to shed light on 
> > this Bug#481063.
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> > Too bad. For me 2.6.26-1-686 is unusable.
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>   What response did you get from the Debian Kernel Team 
> <debian-kernel(at)lists.debian.org> ?  I see that only one member of
> the team responded to your bug report, so maybe another member or
> some other knowledgeable subscriber to that list could be of help.

Indeed. I can try posting to the debian-kernel list again, I tried that 
before and got no answer.

>   What do you get from running 'hwinfo --framebuffer' ?  The hex
> equivalent of decimal 791 is 0x317 -- did you try that as well?

/home/hugoThu Jul 31-13:26:09HDC3# hwinfo --framebuffer
02: None 00.0: 11001 VESA Framebuffer
  [Created at bios.447]
  Unique ID: rdCR.z9EEVgZrzC3
  Hardware Class: framebuffer
  Model: "NVIDIA NV18 Board - p119s0nz"
  Vendor: "NVIDIA Corporation"
  Device: "NV18 Board - p119s0nz"
  SubVendor: "NVIDIA"
  SubDevice:
  Revision: "Chip Rev A4"
  Memory Size: 64 MB
  Memory Range: 0xe0000000-0xe3ffffff (rw)
  Mode 0x0300: 640x400 (+640), 8 bits
  Mode 0x0301: 640x480 (+640), 8 bits
  Mode 0x0303: 800x600 (+800), 8 bits
  Mode 0x0305: 1024x768 (+1024), 8 bits
  Mode 0x0307: 1280x1024 (+1280), 8 bits
  Mode 0x030e: 320x200 (+640), 16 bits
  Mode 0x030f: 320x200 (+1280), 24 bits
  Mode 0x0311: 640x480 (+1280), 16 bits
  Mode 0x0312: 640x480 (+2560), 24 bits
  Mode 0x0314: 800x600 (+1600), 16 bits
  Mode 0x0315: 800x600 (+3200), 24 bits
  Mode 0x0317: 1024x768 (+2048), 16 bits
  Mode 0x0318: 1024x768 (+4096), 24 bits
  Mode 0x031a: 1280x1024 (+2560), 16 bits
  Mode 0x031b: 1280x1024 (+5120), 24 bits
  Mode 0x0330: 320x200 (+320), 8 bits
  Mode 0x0331: 320x400 (+320), 8 bits
  Mode 0x0332: 320x400 (+640), 16 bits
  Mode 0x0333: 320x400 (+1280), 24 bits
  Mode 0x0334: 320x240 (+320), 8 bits
  Mode 0x0335: 320x240 (+640), 16 bits
  Mode 0x0336: 320x240 (+1280), 24 bits
  Mode 0x033d: 640x400 (+1280), 16 bits
  Mode 0x033e: 640x400 (+2560), 24 bits
  Mode 0x0345: 1600x1200 (+1600), 8 bits
  Mode 0x0346: 1600x1200 (+3200), 16 bits
  Mode 0x0347: 1400x1050 (+1400), 8 bits
  Mode 0x0348: 1400x1050 (+2800), 16 bits
  Mode 0x0352: 2048x1536 (+8192), 24 bits
  Config Status: cfg=new, avail=yes, need=no, active=unknown

And I tried vga=0x0317 and get "undefined videomode".


Hugo