The framebuffer how to documentation actually gives two lilo arguments for
the ati cards: vga=791 ("to make the display sane" as they say) and
video=atyfb:[EMAIL PROTECTED] after the "append" argument. They presume you've
compiled the atyfb module into your kernel (which I haven't, though I made
a
James Miller wrote:
On Fri, 22 Oct 2004, Jim Nelson wrote:
If you are using a 2.6 kernel (and maybe the 2.4), the kernel module for
the ATI Rage series of graphics systems is aty128fb, not atyfb. I've
had problems with vesafb myself, but with really old hardware (Trident
TGUI 9660 on an old Think
well... i figured it out myself did a accept all from ppp0
pretty embarrased...:P
thanx anyway!
Ray Olszewski wrote:
At 08:59 PM 10/21/2004 +0200, Ole Martin Handeland wrote:
sending this again, since im still having problems...
I'm sorry, but to get real help, you need to answer ALL of th
Hello Ray:
On Fri, 22 Oct 2004, Ray Olszewski wrote:
> The vesa framebuffer is pretty generic; almost any *modern* video card
> should be able to drop back to its standards. But I do have older cards,
> like the ancient S3 I use in one of my test systems, that does not support
> the vesa framebuf
On Fri, 22 Oct 2004, Ray Olszewski wrote:
> You might want to try 1280x1024 in vesa to see if it works
> there. Depending on color depth, the values for that are:
>
> 8 bit 0x307 = 775
> 16 bit 0x31A = 794
> 24 bit 0x31B =
On Fri, 22 Oct 2004, Jim Nelson wrote:
> If you are using a 2.6 kernel (and maybe the 2.4), the kernel module for
> the ATI Rage series of graphics systems is aty128fb, not atyfb. I've
> had problems with vesafb myself, but with really old hardware (Trident
> TGUI 9660 on an old Thinkpad).
Thank
At 02:00 PM 10/22/2004 -0500, James Miller wrote:
Looking over the framebuffer how to again (fairly dated document by now)
I'm beginning to wonder if maybe my video card doesn't require a special
framebuffer module. There, under section 5.6 "Got an ATI card?" they
mention a particular module--atyf
James Miller wrote:
Looking over the framebuffer how to again (fairly dated document by now)
I'm beginning to wonder if maybe my video card doesn't require a special
framebuffer module. There, under section 5.6 "Got an ATI card?" they
mention a particular module--atyfb. In my initrd, on the other
Looking over the framebuffer how to again (fairly dated document by now)
I'm beginning to wonder if maybe my video card doesn't require a special
framebuffer module. There, under section 5.6 "Got an ATI card?" they
mention a particular module--atyfb. In my initrd, on the other hand, I
appear to h
I'm having some problems with the console display under a new Debian
variant (Ubuntu) I'm trying out and would like to ask for advice on
troubleshooting and maybe fixing the problem. The problem is that I
cannot seem to get the console to display at a high enough resolution. I
understand that the
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