Just making sure you didn't read his line incorrectly, but I think Justin was telling to go back to the VESA driver as opposed to the uvesa one. If you are set on uvesa did you try the line video=uvesafb:1024x768 or is that what you implied in the note about it not working.
thanks and good luck On Jan 15, 2008 7:40 AM, Chuanwen Wu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > On Jan 15, 2008 7:25 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > just use > > > > video=vesafb:1024x768 > I tried, and it doesn't work. > > > > :) justin > > > > > > > > On Tue, 15 Jan 2008 16:44:39 +0800, "Chuanwen Wu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > > > > > Hi, guys! > > > > > > I want to have higher resolution in console. I used vesa-tng before > > > and now I have update the kernel to 2.6.23 and I guess I should use > > > uvesafb instead of vesa-tng. > > > > > > I have followed the guide here > > > http://dev.gentoo.org/~spock/projects/uvesafb/<http://dev.gentoo.org/%7Espock/projects/uvesafb/>, > and > > > Here is the options I have chose in config file about the "FB" thing: > > > > > > CONFIG_FB=y > > > CONFIG_FB_DDC=y > > > CONFIG_FB_CFB_FILLRECT=y > > > CONFIG_FB_CFB_COPYAREA=y > > > CONFIG_FB_CFB_IMAGEBLIT=y > > > CONFIG_FB_DEFERRED_IO=y > > > CONFIG_FB_MODE_HELPERS=y > > > CONFIG_FB_UVESA=y > > > CONFIG_FB_VESA=y > > > CONFIG_FB_INTEL=y > > > CONFIG_FB_INTEL_I2C=y > > > > > > and in the menu.lst file, I append "video=uvesafb:1024x768" (PS: I > > > have tried "video=uvesafb:1024x768-32" and some other similar > > > parameter, too) to the kernel command line. > > > But after I rebooted, the resolution was still very low, which I > > > guess was 800x640, and I couldn't see anything changed. > > > > > > PS: My machine is Dell 1400 laptop and use x86_64 arch. I use > > > tuxonice-sources and I have also tried gentoo-source to test the > > > uvesafb. > > > > > > Any help is appreciated! > > > -- > > > wcw > > > -- > > > gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list > > > > -- > > gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list > > > > > > > > -- > wcw > -- > gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list > >
