Philippe Guyot said: > On Wednesday 05 January 2005 10:03, Sven Luther wrote: >> On Tue, Jan 04, 2005 at 10:39:15PM -0000, Leigh Brown wrote: [...] >> > The PReP specs says that the cards should be initialised to a >> > minimum resolution of 640x480 iirc. The boot loader has code to >> > manually reprogram the card *back* into VGA text mode, but only >> > for a very limited number of cards. So, if your card is not >> > supported by fbdev, and isn't one of the very few supported >> > cards in the boot loader, it simply won't work under PReP. >> >> Ah, ok ... Well i have a cirrus logic card also, and it seems to work. I >> have anot yet tried the matrox cards though. Do they need to be special >> cards with forth rom, or will any do ? > > Well, my box seems to have a matrox video card and I did the install with > my graphical console, not the tty. [...]
That's because your Matrox card is fully supported by fbdev. Cheers, Leigh.
