Asa Rossoff said: > JoeHill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > I'm not sure it's the value I'm using, since I tried changing it to vga=791 > > to no avail. Isn't there some need to have the nvidia module loaded at first > > boot for framebuffer mode to work? > > > > Would it make a difference using the decimal value vs. the other? > > I was disappointed to find only a minimal set of very low-res framebuffer > modes listed on my system, too, so if there's some solution I'm certainly > interested. > > I'm using a different video card -- 3D Labs Permedia 2 -- and after > discovering that Xfree 4.x drivers for this card don't work, I didn't even > bother to ask anyone why the kernel doesn't seem to support it.... Although, > in fact, some very old Ms-dos programs that set various vesa modes without > any special drivers work brilliantly.
I just did a search and saw that there were some solutions to this issue posted on the mandrake-expert list, although Joe wasn't able to get a workable setup. For the record: 1) vga=ASK in lilo.conf does not always list every available mode. e.g. vga=788 (800x600x16) was available on Joe's system, although it wasn't listed. 2) There are some good how-to guides about setting up framebuffer, including idiosyncracies with various cards and configurations: http://www.digitalhermit.com/linux/hiresconsole.html and http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Framebuffer-HOWTO-5.html 3) The first of those how-tos also gives instructions for setting up SVGATextMode instead of using the kernel framebuffer driver. 4) Both how-tos talk about the need to rebuild the kernel to support various video cards that the default vesafb kernel driver doesn't support. This is what I understood from those sources, anyway. I'm a newbie, though :-) It looks like there is specific support for my video card, so hopefully I'll get that going. Asa
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