On Wed, Aug 30, 2000 at 06:46:01AM +0200, Werner Heuser wrote:
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> Pat Mahoney wrote:
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> > the kernel. On boot up it merely says VGA 80x25. I suspected my bios is
> > not vesa 2.0 compliant, but when I set kernel to vga=ask, it says VESA
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> At http://www.strusel007.de/linux/fb.html you may find a DOS tool to
> get the VESA version of your BIOS
> ...
Thanks, will look into it.
> > I talked to IBM and the technician told me that vesa 2.0 is a very old
> > standard. My laptop was made in 1993.
> Kernel docs about VESA says that VESA 2.0 is available since 1994.
> >
> > If I compile the VGA framebuffer (16 color), I get a boot logo :) (which, at
> > the end of the boot process, changes to messed up colors??). But I cannot
> > get to 800x600 using fbset. It says "ioctl FBIOPUT_VSCREENINFO: Invalid
> > argument" When I change fb.modes to use 4 bit color instead of 8, then it
> > "works." I guess that makes sense because VGA 16 wouldn't support 8 bit
> > color....
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> AFAIK I know fbset is for framebuffer console/textmode only (though
> fbset -x
> provides the modelines for XF86Config).
Yes, that is what I am having problems with.
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> > So in 4 bit, things happen, but I get a corrupt screen, I see the very left
> > edge three and a half times. I am using my converted X-modeline. X runs
> > fine in 800x600x(8|16).
> ...
> So what's wrong, X seems to work besides the 4 bit mode?
X works fine, just fb on console is bad. (I don't use fb with X, I use svga
server.)
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> Werner
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