on Mon, Oct 01, 2001 at 06:33:45PM -0400, dman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Mon, Oct 01, 2001 at 10:33:40AM -0500, David A. Rogers wrote: > [video card specs, etc] > | Does anyone have any ideas? This is really starting to wear me down. I'd > | love to get this laptop working. > > Check out the framebuffer support in the kernel.
Is it necessary to explicitly add FB kernel support on x86? My
understanding from the kernel docs was "no".
> Rebuild your kernel to use the framebuffer instead of VGA for console
> driving. Also, when you have the framebuffer support in your kernel,
> you can tell X to use the 'fbdev' driver and it all works with no
> hassle at all. I really like it :-).
On a 600X, I had to add:
Option "NoAccel" "true"
Option "ShadowFB" "false"
...to the Device section of XF86Config-4 to avoid video artifacts.
VGA compatible controller: Neomagic Corporation NM2360 [MagicMedia
256ZX]
Peace.
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