On Thu, Aug 15, 2002 at 09:40:56PM +0200, Russell Coker wrote: > On Thu, 15 Aug 2002 21:11, Jeff wrote: > > I have a Toshiba Satellite Pro 410CDT and I compiles a 2.4.19 kernel > > that included the VESA and VGA16 Framebuffer support. The VESAFB > > doesn't load at boot (perhaps the VESA on the PC is too old), but the > > vga16fb loads fine. However, it loads a 640x480 box inside an 800x600 > > display. I can use "fbset -g 800 600 800 600 4" to make the console a > > full 800x600 display that is very nice. However, I can't figure out > > how to make this fbset change permanent. Upon reboot, it goes back to > > the 640x480 display. Also, I have to run the the fbset command on > > each tty console. > > I have a similar problem, I put the following in a script in /etc/rc.boot: > > for n in /dev/vc/* ; do > echo "" > $n > done > fbset -a 800x600-75 > > If there's a better solution I'd like to know it. > You just have to put vga=0x314 (for 800x600-16bpp) in /etc/lilo.conf. Different values can be found in Documentation/fb/vesafb.txt That's what did the trick for me.
Frank.
