I spent this afternoon tweaking my home computer. I've got some nice stuff which is basically working but could be optimized more.
Case in point, I have a 32MB Diamond Viper V770 AGP video card which is based on the Riva TNT chipset. I used SVGATextMode to set up my consoles for 80x50. With a card like that I know I can do a lot better but try as I might I could not get the dot clocks right. After some research I decided to recompile my kernel with framebuffer support as that seems to be the superior way of going about this. Now I have a fbcon-vga module. I created the fb devices with MAKEDEV which seems to have worked correctly. however when I use fbset--even as root--it tells me: open /dev/fb0: No such device ls -la /dev/fb0 looks like this: crw--w--w- 1 root tty 29, 0 Jan 7 02:58 /dev/fb0 The module does not appear to get loaded. If I explicitly do an insmod it still doesn't work. How do I get my framebuffer working? (This is kernel 2.2.13 btw) Next question, in XFree86 3.3.5 with KDE2 pre-release .debs compiled from CVS on 12/30/99, I have the SVGA X server set up at 32bpp. However the KDE control panel says the depth is 24bpp. Is this an Xserver problem, a KDE problem, or is it normal? Lastly, what combination of Mesa and other libraries do I need to play quake optimally with this card? -- Jaldhar H. Vyas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
