Soren A wrote:
In the documentation for framebuffer (I think -- sorry it was a couple of days ago that I read it) it seems to say something like "if you set a video mode other than VGA-standard in your lilo.conf, you will not be able to switch to another video mode later (after login)". I couldn't understand completely what the wording meant, but it did not sound good.
The problem of some frame buffer drivers is, that you cannot switch between video modes, after you've set one initially. I had this problem with the standard vesa fb driver: after XFree is started (1024x768 graphics mode), my laptop hook up when I switched to a console (text mode). It doesn't mind at all if you use nVidia drivers. The framebuffer device is a general driver concept which works more or less with all graphic cards/chips. You should only use a framebuffer driver if there is no "real" driver for your card/chip, but nVidia provides rather good linux support with real drivers. So, if your kernel makes use of the nVidia driver (which it normally does), there is nothing you have to worry about. Bye. Thorsten
