Thus spake dman: > On Thu, Sep 20, 2001 at 04:47:18PM -0400, Stephen Gran wrote: > | Thus spake dman: > | > On Wed, Sep 19, 2001 at 09:03:09PM -0600, Dave Thayer wrote: > | > | On Tue, Sep 18, 2001 at 05:10:55PM -0700, Vineet Kumar wrote: > | > | > * Steve Gran ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [010918 16:23]: > | > | [...] > | > | > > for. However, fbset 1024x760-60 works just fine. Am i just > feeding the > | > | ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ 1st clue! > | > | If fbset works then you must not be using the vesafb driver, all you > | > | would get is an error message with vesafb > | > > | > What would allow fbset to work? I am curios since I recently started > | > using the framebuffer stuff. I have an SiS6326 card so I think the > | > vesafb driver is the only one I can use. > | > | Hey check out this link - > | http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Framebuffer-HOWTO-5.html > | It looks like you're right, the vesafb option is the one you want. Good > | luck with it. > > I have and have read that doc. I don't think it talks much about > fbset though. I seem to recall seeing fbset breifly mentioned > elsewhere. I was wondering what sort of setup would allow fbset to > change the settings.
I'm sorry, I can't help you there - I take it your getting nowhere with editing lilo? Good luck, Steve -- :wq
