On Thu, Dec 04, 2003 at 06:07:55PM +1100, Russell Coker wrote: > On Thu, 4 Dec 2003 15:12, Matt Price <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > just to report in: this offers no improvement. To be honest I'm kind of > > surprised... Anyway, with vesafb compiled into my kernel, and other > > framebuffer modules left out, I get an error "/dev/fb: no such > > device". Is vesafb supposed to attach to an fb0 device all by its > > lonesome? Kaspar and others: what does fbset -i tell you? I think I > > must be doing something wrong... > > To enable VESAFB on boot you have to put vga=X in your lilo.conf. > > EG "vga=791" for 1024x768x16bpp or "vga=788" for 800x600x16bpp. > > This is documented in linux/Documentation/fb/vesafb.txt > Yes yes, I know this. I get an error on boot -- "invalid mode" -- and am aked to choose from 8 or 9 text-only modes. (should have said this earlier) That is, as far as I can tell, VESAFB doesn't take command of the framebuffer.
... I think Im going to give it up as a lost cause -- maybe sometime down the road I'll figure ito ut! thanks, matt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
