Re: Getting uvesafb to work on Squeeze
On Sun, Aug 8, 2010 at 5:14 PM, Frank Steinmetzger <Warp_7@gmx.de> wrote:
>
> 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.
If you are using grub2, try changing the values of
GRUB_GFXMODE
GRUB_GFXPAYLOAD_LINUX
in
/etc/default/grub
to your required resolution and run
update-grub
You might also need to set
GRUB_TERMINAL=gfxterm
rather than
GRUB_TERMINAL=console
but I'm not sure about this.
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