Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 30 Apr 1999 22:13:27 -0400 | From | Michael Meissner <> | Subject | Vesa mode gives black on black for 2.2.6/2.2.7 with TNT card |
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I was using 2.2.5 with vesa video mode 0x307 (1280x1024 with 8bpp) and decided to rev up to 2.2.7. When I booted the system with 2.2.7, the screen went to black on black when it switched into vesa mode. I fixed it by reseting the vga mode to 0, but it would be nice to have a larger screen in text mode (particularly since I direct syslog output to tty6, so I can easily check what the last messages were). I also tried 2.2.6 with the same results. I diffed drivers/video/vesafb.c and the only change was in setting the mtrr area, so it must be something higher up.
My hardware is a dual 500Mhz pentium-III, Intel L440GX+ motherboard, 256 meg of memory, Diamond Viper 550 PCI video card, both the builtin Adpatec 7896 and an add-on TekRam 390U scsi controllers, a pile of disks, scanner, cd-rom burner, and DAT tape drive. I do not overclock.
-- Michael Meissner, Cygnus Solutions 174 Littleton Road #3-198 Westford, Massachusetts 01886 email: meissner@cygnus.com fax: 978-692-4482
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