On Tue, Sep 18, 2001 at 05:10:55PM -0700, Vineet Kumar wrote: | * Steve Gran ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [010918 16:23]: | > Hello all, | > Seems like a silly question, but I can't quite figure out how to do it. I | > would like to have my terminals display at something like 1024x768 at boot | > time. I have tried both vga=ask and vga=0x305 in /etc/lilo.conf, and | > neither gives me what I want - ask supplies a max res of 640x480, and | > vga=0x305 gives the same, although I thought would give the res I'm looking | > for. However, fbset 1024x760-60 works just fine. Am i just feeding the | > wrong numbers in my vga line? Is it some stupid syntactic error (like I | > need append = first)? I could put a little script in /etc/rc2.d/, I | > suppose, but I would like the kernel to handle it, as it's compiled in. | > uname -a | > Linux gashuffer 2.4.9 #2 Sun Sep 9 20:04:31 EDT 2001 i686 unknown | > fbset -v | > 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 "640x480-60" | > # D: 25.171 MHz, H: 31.463 kHz, V: 59.930 Hz | > geometry 640 480 640 480 8 | > timings 39729 30 34 33 10 96 2 | > accel true | > rgba 8/0,8/0,8/0,0/0 | > endmode | | Hey, | | sorry I don't have a good answer, but a clue that might help you find | one: the framebuffer stuff and the vga= stuff are 2 different beasts.
Actually, they are related. The vga= can be used to set a size for a tradional VGA text console (the only options listed if you specify "ask"), or one can specify a VESA mode (scaled up by 0x200) for the VESA framebuffer. | see fb.txt in the kernel documentation for more info. If you're using | the VESA framebuffer, I think what you really need is a kernel parameter | more like "video=vesafb:mode:options", and those are documented in the This is the other related option. It is more flexible, but I'm just using the vga= option right now. | fb/vesafb.txt file. If you're using something else instead of vesa (like | rivafb for an nvidia riva, or matroxfb for a matrox, etc.) see the | appropriate file in the same place (<kernel-source>/Documentation/fb). Yeah, if you have a good (supported) card you can get acceleration too. Not me. HTH, -D
