On Sat, 2003-01-04 at 05:32, Ronald J. Hall wrote:
I hear ya Tom. I've had to use Nvidia because it *works* as the only other
choice was to dual-boot with Windows - and I personally found that to be a
choice I couldn't make.
Just as soon as ATI's new open driver stuff is close enough to
Stephen Kuhn wrote:
On Sat, 2003-01-04 at 05:32, Ronald J. Hall wrote:
I hear ya Tom. I've had to use Nvidia because it *works* as the only other
choice was to dual-boot with Windows - and I personally found that to be a
choice I couldn't make.
Just as soon as ATI's new open driver stuff
On Friday January 3 2003 12:32 pm, Ronald J. Hall wrote:
Just as soon as ATI's new open driver stuff is close enough to
Nvidia to be useable, I'll be more than happy (and relieved) to
pull out the 'ole credit card and buy 3 cards to replace the
Nvidia's here...
moment of wistful thinking
On Saturday 04 January 2003 01:58 pm, Lyvim Xaphir wrote:
snip
This will be interesting because it will tell us how much emphasis
Nvidia is placing on the VESA modes. Probably more than alot of
companies but not more than last time.
--LX
I saved your reply - I'll try it in the next day or
On Thursday 02 January 2003 08:57 pm, Lyvim Xaphir wrote:
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
On Thursday 02 January 2003 05:35 pm, Lyvim Xaphir wrote:
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Ron has an Nvidia card very similar to mine, which probably does support
the needed VESA standards. After searching my manual here for this Elsa
Gladiac Ultra, the best info I've been able to come up with on my card
is that it
On Thursday 02 January 2003 06:26 pm, 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
On Friday January 3 2003 02:17 am, Ronald J. Hall wrote:
Actually, before I checked my mail today (and this thread) I had
been playing around with this. It does seem to follow what you are
saying. I tried
788
791
788 works, but will use bootsplash if present, 791 gives 1024x768
(lots of
On Friday 03 January 2003 05:05 pm, Tom Brinkman wrote:
Actually there's even more to it. From what I've read, nVidia
chipsets don't really do (incapable of) 16M (32bpp). Even if this is
what you pick, they default to 24bpp (still sort'a 16M). A shortcut
they took to get ahead of ATI. To
On Thu, 2003-01-02 at 09:15, Tom Brinkman wrote:
Because if you change to 'vga=normal' you're still usin fb (frame
buffer). Just remove the vga= line and you should get 'plain text'.
BTW, if you want to keep the fb =788 is 800x600, =791 is 1024x
768. I don't recall what the number
On Thursday January 2 2003 09:20 am, Lyvim Xaphir wrote:
The file is /usr/src/linux/Documentation/fb/vesafb.txt. In order
to get the video mode number of the Linux kernel, you take the
hexadecimal VESA mode number, then add 0x200. Then of course you
convert to decimal.
Hex adjusted Kernel
On Thu, 2003-01-02 at 11:25, Tom Brinkman wrote:
On Thursday January 2 2003 09:20 am, Lyvim Xaphir wrote:
The file is /usr/src/linux/Documentation/fb/vesafb.txt. In order
to get the video mode number of the Linux kernel, you take the
hexadecimal VESA mode number, then add 0x200. Then of
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
On Tuesday December 31 2002 12:49 pm, Ronald J. Hall wrote:
Is it safe to remove the bootsplash in v9.0 as a lot of us did in
v8.2? So that we get a black background with text during bootup?
(I've already inserted noquiet into /etc/lilo.conf...
'noquiet' is wrong, just remove 'quiet' from
On Tuesday 31 December 2002 6:49 pm, Ronald J. Hall wrote:
Is it safe to remove the bootsplash in v9.0 as a lot of us did in v8.2? So
that we get a black background with text during bootup? (I've already
inserted noquiet into /etc/lilo.conf...
Thanks!
I certainly run my machine without
Is it safe to remove the bootsplash in v9.0 as a lot of us did in v8.2? So
that we get a black background with text during bootup? (I've already
inserted noquiet into /etc/lilo.conf...
Thanks!
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