Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 8 Feb 1999 10:50:58 -0600 (CST) | From | Dustin Marquess <> | Subject | Re: VESA fb |
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On Mon, 8 Feb 1999, Benjamin Close wrote:
> On Sun, 7 Feb 1999, Dustin Marquess wrote: > > > > > I have a Creative Labs Graphics Blaster TNT PCI card (using > > the nVidia Riva TNT chipset). > > > > If I enable the VESA framebuffer support in the 2.2.0 kernel, > > as soon as LILO boots the kernel, nothing else is outputted to my > > monitor, even though I can hear the system load... > > > > <GRIN> Been there done that <GRIN> > > It's not just the TNT it will happen to anycard if you do not do one of > the following: > > 1> Enable VGA text console - but this wont use the FB > > 2> Enable video mode selection, add vga=ask in lilo.conf and put in a mode > listed in Documentation/fb/vesa.txt when asked. - This does use the FB > > Once you work out which mode you like change the vga=modenumber (check > this you may have to convert it to base 10 - decimal)
Ahhh, thanks... I didn't have to do that w/ the TGA framebuffer on the Alpha :).
Now to just get SVGAlib's VESA support working with the VESA fb, so I can get hi-res on my TNT card... *sigh*.
Thanks again, -Dustin
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