On Sat, Jan 25, 2003 at 06:16:32PM +0000, Soren A wrote: > Bob Nielsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote around 23 Jan 2003 > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: > > > On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 12:48:17PM -0500, cyn wrote: > >> > >> Oh, one last thing - shouldn't a high-resolution console look > >> different? I have sisfb compiled in and my append includes: > >> video=sisfb:mode:1024x768x16,mem:12288 > >> which seems to me like it should be setting the console to a high > >> resolution videomode... but on boot it's running normal and dmesg > >> says Console: colour VGA+ 80x25 > > > > Try "vga=791". > > Since I cannot see any obvious correlation between this "791" and the > parameters given above (which I didn't know one could do, having just read > everything on LILO I could get my hands on, 12 hours ago), could you please > elaborate on the formula used to come up with such special fb statements to > append= -- my laptop, likewise, is capable of hi-res (same as his, > 1024x768, but I don't know my video memory spec). > > Or point me towards some Fine Documentation.
I know this begs the question, but frankly I don't have any references. I noticed that KNOPPIX had a nice high-resolution console display so I checked its configuration and found that. I normally use vga=5 to get a 80 x 34 (I think) display, but vga=791 is much higher than that and isn't listed by vga=ask. I tried the scan option, but my display indicates "over frequency" and blanks, so that didn't help either. One might expect to find this in the Framebuffer-HOWTO, but it isn't covered there. Maybe someone else can enlighten us. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
