On Thu, Feb 17, 2000 at 01:01:05PM +0100, Michel Dänzer wrote: > Renaud Dreyer wrote: > > > > Possible. Have you tried other depths? As the console has only 16 colors > > > anyway, there's no point in running it at more than 8 bpp... > > > > I'll try that next, but I know someone on a B&W G3 (with Rage128) > > who gets accelerated console and the same > > " Accelerator : Unknown (32)", but at lower than 32 bit. > > Maybe he was running in 24bpp, but you are in 32, or vice versa? Most gfx > chips only support full acceleration in one of those formats.
that would be me that Renaud is refering to in case its useful to anyone here is the same info from my system: [EMAIL PROTECTED] eb]$ su -c 'fbset -s -v ; fbset -i' Password: Linux Frame Buffer Device Configuration Version 2.1 (23/06/1999) (C) Copyright 1995-1999 by Geert Uytterhoeven Opening frame buffer device `/dev/fb0' Using current video mode from `/dev/fb0' mode "1024x768-75" # D: 78.740 MHz, H: 60.015 kHz, V: 75.019 Hz geometry 1024 768 1024 768 8 timings 12700 158 34 28 1 96 3 hsync high vsync high accel true rgba 8/0,8/0,8/0,0/0 endmode mode "1024x768-75" # D: 78.740 MHz, H: 60.015 kHz, V: 75.019 Hz geometry 1024 768 1024 768 8 timings 12700 158 34 28 1 96 3 hsync high vsync high accel true rgba 8/0,8/0,8/0,0/0 endmode Frame buffer device information: Name : ATY Rage128 Address : 0x88000000 Size : 16777216 Type : PACKED PIXELS Visual : PSEUDOCOLOR XPanStep : 8 YPanStep : 1 YWrapStep : 0 LineLength : 1024 MMIO Address: 0x80900000 MMIO Size : 8191 Accelerator : Unknown (32) i have to turn accel on manually after bootups with fbset -a -accel True but i really don't notice any significant difference between the two, the screen shimmers slightly and sometimes blanks for a second when i do though so it seems to do something... btw does anyone know how to change this fscking blinking block cursor to a regular _ like we have on intel VGA consoles? (and change powersave times) one piticularly annoying thing I have with this framebuffer is almost everytime i switch VCs (i dont run X BTW) the screen goes black for about 2 or 3 seconds and then fades back in... -- Ethan Benson