Dear group On ye olde Gentoo I was a happy user of uvesafb at my laptop’s native resolution of 1400x1050. A while ago I installed Squeeze, and naturally, I would like it to also have a tiny console font. (The “Tiny Console Font” thread is what got me into investigating this issue again). :o) I’m attaching some relevant information. According to dmesg, uvesafb is loading, but fbset -i tells me that I’m running the normal VESA fb. I don’t mind really which one runs, as long as I can use my resolution. Setting the VESA mode via the kernel’s vga= parameter also wasn’t satisfactory. At my preferred mode 0x347 or 0x348, I got a 320x240 screen. The biggest mode I got running was with 1280 horizontal resolution. When I originally tried to find out how to set up uvesafb, I remember always having read that I had to compile my own kernel. Could that be the cause? I’m running a normal stock 2.6.32-5-686. My graphics card is a Geforce Go 7600. I’d apreciate any helpful advice. -- Gruß | Greetings | Qapla' begin signature_virus Hi! I’m a signature virus. Please copy me to your signature to help me spread. end
# dmesg | grep uvesafb [ 0.000000] Kernel command line: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-5-686 root=/dev/sda3 ro video=uvesafb:mtrr:3,ywrap,1400x1050-24@60 [ 2.257048] uvesafb: NVIDIA Corporation, G73 Board - haba_73b, Chip Rev , OEM: NVIDIA, VBE v3.0 [ 2.268213] uvesafb: protected mode interface info at c000:c5d0 [ 2.268279] uvesafb: pmi: set display start = c00cc606, set palette = c00cc670 [ 2.268351] uvesafb: pmi: ports = 3b4 3b5 3ba 3c0 3c1 3c4 3c5 3c6 3c7 3c8 3c9 3cc 3ce 3cf 3d0 3d1 3d2 3d3 3d4 3d5 3da [ 2.271423] uvesafb: VBIOS/hardware doesn't support DDC transfers [ 2.271487] uvesafb: no monitor limits have been set, default refresh rate will be used [ 2.273616] uvesafb: scrolling: ypan using protected mode interface, yres_virtual=8192 [ 2.332626] uvesafb: framebuffer at 0xc0000000, mapped to 0xf8000000, using 10240k, total 262144k
# fbset -i
mode "640x480-60"
# D: 23.845 MHz, H: 29.844 kHz, V: 60.048 Hz
geometry 640 480 640 8192 16
timings 41937 80 16 13 1 63 3
vsync high
rgba 5/11,6/5,5/0,0/0
endmode
Frame buffer device information:
Name : VESA VGA
Address : 0xc0000000
Size : 10485760
Type : PACKED PIXELS
Visual : TRUECOLOR
XPanStep : 0
YPanStep : 1
YWrapStep : 0
LineLength : 1280
Accelerator : No
# hwinfo --framebuffer 02: None 00.0: 11001 VESA Framebuffer [Created at bios.464] Unique ID: rdCR.QvSPBLHXPE9 Hardware Class: framebuffer Model: "NVIDIA G73 Board - haba_73b" Vendor: "NVIDIA Corporation" Device: "G73 Board - haba_73b" SubVendor: "NVIDIA" SubDevice: Revision: "Chip Rev" Memory Size: 256 MB Memory Range: 0xc0000000-0xcfffffff (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 0x0347: 1400x1050 (+1400), 8 bits Mode 0x0348: 1400x1050 (+2800), 16 bits Config Status: cfg=new, avail=yes, need=no, active=unknown
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