Hi folks, I'm sure I have seen something similar to this problem on the list recently, but I wasn't able to find anything helpful in the list archives.
I recently installed a Matrox Mystique in my debian machine, which had been in my windows machine for a few years until I got a new card. I used to run the VGA16 framebuffer with no worries, but thought it would be cool to run in something other than minimum resolution and 16 colours on the console. I recomiled my 2.2.15 kernel, removing the VGA16 framebuffer, and inserting the matrox framebufer as a module. I rebooted with the new kernel, and at the lilo prompt typed in: linux video=matrox:vesa:0x114 (which should give me 800x600x16bit), according to the matrox framebuffer documentation in the kernel sources. The new kernel proceeded to load, but only with the standard VGA text console - no sign of a framebuffer to be seen. However, if I tried modprobing matroxfb, the framebuffer will load correctly, and can be set from fbset. There was no error or anything when using the lilo line (typed in maually at the "lilo:ยจ prompt, not "append"ed in lilo.conf), it just didn't appear. My preference is to have it load automatically, which I'd believed it should do giving my lilo command line (isn't the idea that kmod automatically loads modules when needed?). Any idea what I'm doing wrong? If I'd compiled it in would it have made a difference? Any pointers greatly appreciated. cheers, damon -- Damon Muller ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) / It's not a sense of humor. * Criminologist / It's a sense of irony * Webmeister / disguised as one. * Linux Geek / - Bruce Sterling - Running Debian GNU/Linux: Doing my bit for World Domination (tm) -
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