i use woody, video card matrox millennium g200 agp, kernel 2.4.17 about one month ago i recompiled my kernel in order to activate framebuffer. now my console shows more pleasant char. and i can look at my photos by fbi (though i prefer zgv) some days ago i downloaded the zsnes .deb pkg in order to show to my 10 years old son that he can do under linux anything he already does under win. but when i tried to run it i get the starting menu screen but it flickers (i mean the image moves quickly up and down). i posted on zsnes home page message board and the advise was to use option -w (vsync) but it did not solve the problem when i kill the program i can read the following output: debian:~# zsnes
ZSNES v1.337 beta (c)1997-2001 ZSNES Team (zsKnight - _Demo_) Linux version, please report crashes to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Compiled under NASM, GCC Programmers : zsKnight, _Demo_ Assistant Coder : Pharos ZSNES comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions; check license.txt. Use ZSNES -? for command line definitions MMX support enabled. FOUND! matroxfb: cannot set xres to 800, rounded up to 832 matroxfb: cannot set xres to 800, rounded up to 832 Joystick 0 (4 Buttons): Analog 4-axis 4-button joystick Killed but the mtroxfb error sounds to me very strange since: debian:~# dmesg | grep -e matroxfb matroxfb: Matrox Millennium G200 (AGP) detected matroxfb: MTRR's turned on matroxfb: 800x600x16bpp (virtual: 800x5240) matroxfb: framebuffer at 0xE7000000, mapped to 0xc8805000, size 8388608 doesn't it mean that framebuffer uses 800x600? other weirdness: if i launch zsnes from within an xterm the program starts (though i cannot play using either joystick or keybord, but this is another problem ;-) and if i switch to vc1 i can read that it is utilizing modeline 800x600 at 85H) I thought to transform x modeline parameters to those needed by framebuffer and added to lilo append line: video=matrox:xres:800,yres:600,depth:16,left:152,right:32,hslen:64,upper:27,lower:1,vslen:3 (i utilized as an example what is written in the framebuffer-howto) i launch lilo and then reboot but i can see the initial msg only and afterwards the screen becomes black as if my monitor did not support the resolution, though as i mentioned hereabove, x works with it. can anyone help me? thanks aldo -- __________________________________________________________________ Your favorite stores, helpful shopping tools and great gift ideas. Experience the convenience of buying online with [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://shopnow.netscape.com/ Get your own FREE, personal Netscape Mail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com/
