Pat Mahoney wrote:
> 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 At http://www.strusel007.de/linux/fb.html you may find a DOS tool to get the VESA version of your BIOS ... > 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.... AFAIK I know fbset is for framebuffer console/textmode only (though fbset -x provides the modelines for XF86Config). > > 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? Werner -- -= LiLAC - Linux-Laptop-Guide http://home.snafu.de/wehe =- -= Xtops.DE - Laptops und PDAs mit Linux http://xtops.de =-
