On Thu, 2003-01-02 at 18:26, Tom Brinkman wrote: 

>     Yes, at least my GeF2 does support fb, most all cards do, but 
> there's some, mostly ready made non standard ones that don't. So Ron, 
> just change to vga=0x311, you'll eliminate the bootsplash an get 
> bigger text ;>  'Course thru all this discussion I've been remiss to 
> mention that 'rpm -e bootsplash' will also get rid of it ;)
> -- 
>     Tom Brinkman                  Corpus Christi, Texas

Since all three of us have basically the same card, I did a little
legwork and compiled a chart of working VESA modes for our chipset. 
There should not be much variance between our cards, I wouldn't think;
except for memory. Mine's got 64 megs. I noticed right away that *none*
of the 32k color modes were working.  But here is what I found....

Kernel VESA mode numbers:

    | 640x480  800x600  1024x768 1280x1024
----+-------------------------------------
256 |  0x301    0x303    0x305    0x307
32k |  -----    -----    -----    -----
64k |  0x311    0x314    0x317    0x31A
16M |  0x312    0x315    0x318    -----


These numbers should be valid for a GeForce2.  I find it strange that
1280x1024@16M doesn't work.

I didn't see much console speed difference between the modes.  Since
I've got a 20" monitor, I just left mine in 0x31A.  ;)  Now I can go to
vc/1, then cd to /usr/bin and halfway see a respectable amount all at
once with an ls. <g>  It's the bomb!

--LX

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