Hello, recently I've switched to framebuffers in order to get good results with my new Sony lcd monitor -- and almost everything is fine! I'm using the vesa framebuffer with an ati all-in-wonder card. And here is the first problem: when booting a kernel with aty128fb, I get a blank screen -- but no messages of inactivity from the monitor. I can even wait until the boot process finishes and blindly login to safely reboot. So I switched to vesa.
And here lies the more important problem: since it doesn't support mode switching (on the fly), how can I use dvifb? It forces me to boot in 256-colors mode, which is not good for use with fbi. I can, with limitations, use dvisvga and zgv, but with the rage driver selected. If I select fbdev, nothing happens. How do I solve this? I want to be able to use the console for previewing .dvi's as well as as for viewing other images. Ideas? Thank you, andrej The outputs follow: dvisvga: ---------------------------------- This is some kind of a DVIewer, V01.03 (C)opyright 1995 Thomas Moor svgalib 1.4.3 warning: cant read startupfile /etc/dvisvga reading startupfile /root/.dvisvga initializing kpathsea, new style: ok warning: display: mode not supported on this machine. Now try -d640x480. Check your svgalib configuration. warning: display: mode -d640x480 not supported at 256 colors. Now try at 16 colors. This will reduce display quality and speed. Check your svgalib configuration. warning: display: mode -d640x480 not even supported at 16 colors. fatal error: display: Sorry. ------------------------------------- And here zgv: ------------------------------ Vesafb does not support changing the video mode svgalib: Signal 11: Segmentation fault received. Segmentation fault ------------------------------- This is dvifb: ------------------------------- This is some kind of a DVIewer, V01.03 (C)opyright 1995 Thomas Moor writefb: open: f(/dev/fb0)(VESA VGA) fatal error: writefb: pseudocolor, packed-pixels, 8bpp required ... try fbset utility? writefb: restore console: f --------------------------- -- echo ${girl_name} > /etc/dumpdates -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]