On Mon, 24 May 2004 17:44:23 -0700 Asa Rossoff disseminated the following: > 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.
Wow. Thanks very much. I don't know if I'm up for a kernel rebuild, but you're the second person to recommend the SVGATextMode, so I'll give that a shot. Cheers! -- JoeHill RLU #282046 / www.orderinchaos.org 13:38:40 up 6 days, 2:19, 6 users, load average: 1.21, 1.23, 1.26 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++ "If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged." -- Noam Chomsky
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