Re: Trying to achieve hi-res console (framebuffer)

2004-11-15 Thread H. S.
Apparently, _Curt Howland_, on 11/11/04 10:13,typed: Unfortunately, although I've been running 2.6 since 2.6.4, the statement vga=791 in lilo.conf has worked perfectly, just like it did with 2.4. Sorry. On Thursday 11 November 2004 09:43, Kevin Collins was heard to say: Has anyone been able to

Re: Trying to achieve hi-res console (framebuffer)

2004-11-15 Thread Eric Hanchrow
Here's another datapoint: 2.6.8 (from a recent Debian Sarge installation CD) works fine with a Dell Latitude C640, with ``vga=773''. -- I ... don't want programming to be really interesting any more than I want my toaster to be really interesting. I want my toaster to get the job done and I do

Re: Trying to achieve hi-res console (framebuffer)

2004-11-15 Thread Micha Feigin
At Mon, 15 Nov 2004 12:23:00 -0500, H. S. wrote: Apparently, _Curt Howland_, on 11/11/04 10:13,typed: Unfortunately, although I've been running 2.6 since 2.6.4, the statement vga=791 in lilo.conf has worked perfectly, just like it did with 2.4. Sorry. On Thursday 11 November

Re: Trying to achieve hi-res console (framebuffer)

2004-11-15 Thread Rui Silva
i'm using 2.6.8 and grub and i had to put vga=0x318 for 1024x768 16M colors On Thursday 11 November 2004 14:43, Kevin Collins wrote: I've been struggling for two days trying to get my Compaq Presario X1029cl to go into hi-res consoles or framebuffer. Until I switched to kernel 2.6.x, I had

Re: Trying to achieve hi-res console (framebuffer)

2004-11-15 Thread Vin Jacob
On Thursday 11 November 2004 14:43, Kevin Collins wrote: I've been struggling for two days trying to get my Compaq Presario X1029cl to go into hi-res consoles or framebuffer. Until I switched to kernel 2.6.x, I had always been able to simply add a statement to the kernel line in

Trying to achieve hi-res console (framebuffer)

2004-11-11 Thread Kevin Collins
I've been struggling for two days trying to get my Compaq Presario X1029cl to go into hi-res consoles or framebuffer. Until I switched to kernel 2.6.x, I had always been able to simply add a statement to the kernel line in /boot/grub/menu.lst file like vga=791 to achieve what I was after. Not

Re: Trying to achieve hi-res console (framebuffer)

2004-11-11 Thread Curt Howland
Unfortunately, although I've been running 2.6 since 2.6.4, the statement vga=791 in lilo.conf has worked perfectly, just like it did with 2.4. Sorry. On Thursday 11 November 2004 09:43, Kevin Collins was heard to say: Has anyone been able to use a 2.6.x kernel and get a hi-res framebuffer?

Re: Trying to achieve hi-res console (framebuffer)

2004-11-11 Thread Eddy Petrisor
Kevin Collins wrote: Has anyone been able to use a 2.6.x kernel and get a hi-res framebuffer? Of those that can, can you post the relevent portions of your kernel config for me? I didn't have any problems, vga=791 works fine (with GRUB). I have attached my whole kernel config, I am too lazy

Re: Trying to achieve hi-res console (framebuffer)

2004-11-11 Thread tilo kremer
Kevin Collins wrote: video=vesa:mtrr,ywrap,vga=791 video=vesa:mtrr,ywrap,vga=0x317 video=vesafb:mtrr,ywrap,vga=791 video=vesafb:mtrr,ywrap,vga=0x317 video=vesafb:[EMAIL PROTECTED] video=radeonfb:mtrr,ywrap,vga=791 video=radeonfb:mtrr,ywrap,vga=0x317 video=radeonfb:[EMAIL PROTECTED] vga=791 Has