> On Mon, Jul 10, 2000 at 11:53:02AM -0600, Jeremiah Merkl wrote: > > I've been having issues with my video. > > > > Standard G3-'99, with a rage128. Seems that if I use fbset to change my > > video mode to 1280x1024 (on console), as soon as I hit the bottom of the > > screen, I kernel-panic...except it doesn't even tell me. :) It just beeps, > > locks, and reboots 3 minutes later. Neat, huh? > > i don't remember if i have ever paniced the kernel messing with fbset > (i think so...) but i have paniced the kernel by using the scrollback > buffer and gpm at the same time. > > i have never been able to do anything useful with fbset however, > everything i try just scrambles the screen...
:) I've got a Dell/Trinitron monitor, so it must just be more robust then yours. fbset itself never caused the panic, it behaved fine. Mayhaps it's an incompatibility between bash and the fb-driver? > > I also have the problem if I run MOL in 1280x1024 on VC8, and I switch > > back to X. > i don't use X on this box so i don't know. I'm assuming that it crashes no matter what I switch back to, because of the video mode...X or not, it doesn't like 1280x1024. > > Anyone else have this problem? Is it a kernel-fb driver, fbset, what? > i think the aty128fb driver is a bit buggy. it has one obnoxious bug > that causes the screen to go black everytime i switch VCs. still no > solution to that yet.. Mine doesn't go black, however it does seem to resync the videomode half the time (monitor clicks and flickers like it's changing resolutions) I figure it's the fb-driver then. And I'm not skilled enough to even attempt to debug it. :) Anyone know if the 2.4 kernel tree behaves any better? > > Not to mention, anyone on a G3 got X running in >1024x768? I can't seem to > > get it... > > hmm my kernel always boots the frambuffer to 1024x768 and fbdev X > server just retains that by default the few times i have tried X.. > (you mean blue G3 '99 right?) > Yep. That's what happens on mine too. Anyone know how to change the default boot-up video mode? I tried playing with my yaboot additions "video=aty128fb:vmode=24:cmode=32" but nothing I changed made any difference. Thanks in advance... -JM
