Re: [9fans] no frame buffer

2010-05-24 Thread frank
On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 12:00:14AM +0100, Ethan Grammatikidis wrote: > Is it possible to limit the frame rate aux/vga sets? The reason I'm > asking is: No idea. >> Whatever I use for monitor (vesa, vga) or vgasize, the >> screen just turns black and the led of the monitor is blinking. > > I've

Re: [9fans] no frame buffer

2010-05-23 Thread Ethan Grammatikidis
Is it possible to limit the frame rate aux/vga sets? The reason I'm asking is: On 23 May 2010, at 22:41, fr...@inua.be wrote: Whatever I use for monitor (vesa, vga) or vgasize, the screen just turns black and the led of the monitor is blinking. I've had quite a lot of CRT monitors in the pa

Re: [9fans] no frame buffer

2010-05-23 Thread frank
On Sat, May 22, 2010 at 08:01:40PM -0400, erik quanstrom wrote: > > However, when this box boots via PXE, it has the same issue... Any > > idea what might be wrong? > > perhaps vgasize or monitor is unset. try > > vgasize=1280x1024x16# adjust as appropriate. cf. vga(8) > monitor

Re: [9fans] no frame buffer

2010-05-23 Thread frank
On Sun, May 23, 2010 at 12:26:07PM +0100, Richard Miller wrote: > > Apparently, /sys/lib/newuser creates an > > "incorrect" /usr//lib/profile. In case of a terminal, it tries > > to start rio without first configuring the vga card. Why is it like > > that? > > Because /rc/bin/termrc does 'aux/vga

Re: [9fans] no frame buffer

2010-05-23 Thread Richard Miller
> Apparently, /sys/lib/newuser creates an > "incorrect" /usr//lib/profile. In case of a terminal, it tries > to start rio without first configuring the vga card. Why is it like > that? Because /rc/bin/termrc does 'aux/vga -l $vgasize' But only if all these are true: test -f /dev/mousectl ~ $m

Re: [9fans] no frame buffer

2010-05-23 Thread frank
On Sat, May 22, 2010 at 08:01:40PM -0400, erik quanstrom wrote: > > However, when this box boots via PXE, it has the same issue... Any > > idea what might be wrong? > > perhaps vgasize or monitor is unset. try > > vgasize=1280x1024x16# adjust as appropriate. cf. vga(8) > monitor

Re: [9fans] no frame buffer

2010-05-22 Thread erik quanstrom
> However, when this box boots via PXE, it has the same issue... Any > idea what might be wrong? perhaps vgasize or monitor is unset. try vgasize=1280x1024x16# adjust as appropriate. cf. vga(8) monitor=vesa aux/vga -l $vgasize - erik

[9fans] no frame buffer

2010-05-22 Thread frank
Hello, I tried to boot an AMD Geode LX400 system ("mini PC") using PXE but, after logging in as a normal user, always got complaints from rio that it couldn't open a display, more specifically: "initdisplay: /dev/draw/new: no frame buffer". As my cpu/auth server is running on a Via Epia ESP5000 a