On Wed, Aug 30, 2000 at 06:46:01AM +0200, Werner Heuser wrote: > > > 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 > ...
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.... > > 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. > > > > > 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.) > > Werner > -- > -= LiLAC - Linux-Laptop-Guide http://home.snafu.de/wehe =- > -= Xtops.DE - Laptops und PDAs mit Linux http://xtops.de =- > > -- Pat Mahoney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "We waste so many moments standing on convention" -- Nick Hexum
