On Tue, 29 Aug 2000, 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 >somewhere in there (not sure exactly where). When I probe for more modes, >it finds none. Entering standard vesa modes returns "invalid mode." > >I talked to IBM and the technician told me that vesa 2.0 is a very old >standard. My laptop was made in 1993.
I was under the impression that VESA 2.0 was out in about 1995 and device support came later. If your laptop was produced in 1997 I wouldn't have counted on it having 2.0 support. >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 You can never change the mode of the VESA frame-buffer in any significant way with fbset regardless of anything else. Try putting "vga=788" in /etc/lilo.conf , read /usr/src/linux/Documentation/fb/vesafb.txt for more details. But if vga=788 doesn't work then probably nothing will. -- My current location - X marks the spot. X X X
