Re: Trying to achieve hi-res console (framebuffer)

2004-11-15 Thread Vin Jacob
On Thursday 11 November 2004 14:43, Kevin Collins wrote: I've been struggling for two days trying to get my Compaq Presario X1029cl to go into hi-res consoles or framebuffer. Until I switched to kernel 2.6.x, I had always been able to simply add a statement to the kernel line in /boot/grub/men

Re: Trying to achieve hi-res console (framebuffer)

2004-11-15 Thread Rui Silva
i'm using 2.6.8 and grub and i had to put vga=0x318 for 1024x768 16M colors On Thursday 11 November 2004 14:43, Kevin Collins wrote: > I've been struggling for two days trying to get my Compaq Presario > X1029cl to go into hi-res consoles or framebuffer. Until I switched to > kernel 2.6.x, I had

Re: Trying to achieve hi-res console (framebuffer)

2004-11-15 Thread Micha Feigin
At Mon, 15 Nov 2004 12:23:00 -0500, H. S. wrote: > > Apparently, _Curt Howland_, on 11/11/04 10:13,typed: > > Unfortunately, although I've been running 2.6 since 2.6.4, the > > statement "vga=791" in lilo.conf has worked perfectly, just like it > > did with 2.4. > > > > Sorry. > > > > On Thurs

Re: Trying to achieve hi-res console (framebuffer)

2004-11-15 Thread Eric Hanchrow
Here's another datapoint: 2.6.8 (from a recent Debian Sarge installation CD) works fine with a Dell Latitude C640, with ``vga=773''. -- I ... don't want programming to be "really interesting" any more than I want my toaster to be "really interesting". I want my toaster to get the job done and I d

Re: Trying to achieve hi-res console (framebuffer)

2004-11-15 Thread H. S.
Apparently, _Curt Howland_, on 11/11/04 10:13,typed: Unfortunately, although I've been running 2.6 since 2.6.4, the statement "vga=791" in lilo.conf has worked perfectly, just like it did with 2.4. Sorry. On Thursday 11 November 2004 09:43, Kevin Collins was heard to say: Has anyone been able to

Re: Trying to achieve hi-res console (framebuffer)

2004-11-11 Thread tilo kremer
Kevin Collins wrote: video=vesa:mtrr,ywrap,vga=791 video=vesa:mtrr,ywrap,vga=0x317 video=vesafb:mtrr,ywrap,vga=791 video=vesafb:mtrr,ywrap,vga=0x317 video=vesafb:[EMAIL PROTECTED] video=radeonfb:mtrr,ywrap,vga=791 video=radeonfb:mtrr,ywrap,vga=0x317 video=radeonfb:[EMAIL PROTECTED] vga=791 > Has an

Re: Trying to achieve hi-res console (framebuffer)

2004-11-11 Thread Eddy Petrisor
Kevin Collins wrote: > > Has anyone been able to use a 2.6.x kernel and get a hi-res framebuffer? > Of those that can, can you post the relevent portions of your kernel > config for me? I didn't have any problems, vga=791 works fine (with GRUB). I have attached my whole kernel config, I am too lazy

Re: Trying to achieve hi-res console (framebuffer)

2004-11-11 Thread Curt Howland
Unfortunately, although I've been running 2.6 since 2.6.4, the statement "vga=791" in lilo.conf has worked perfectly, just like it did with 2.4. Sorry. On Thursday 11 November 2004 09:43, Kevin Collins was heard to say: > Has anyone been able to use a 2.6.x kernel and get a hi-res > framebuffer

Trying to achieve hi-res console (framebuffer)

2004-11-11 Thread Kevin Collins
I've been struggling for two days trying to get my Compaq Presario X1029cl to go into hi-res consoles or framebuffer. Until I switched to kernel 2.6.x, I had always been able to simply add a statement to the kernel line in /boot/grub/menu.lst file like "vga=791" to achieve what I was after. Not o

Re: FW: Console framebuffer

2004-05-25 Thread Hugo Santos
Tiago Rodrigues wrote: > Hi, this is my first post and It's not really laptop specific, but > since I use debian on my laptop I belive it aplies. I have a compaq > presario X1000 with an ATI radeon 9200, I instaled the ATI drivers > and I'm happy with X resolution (1280x800) and 3D, only I can't

FW: Console framebuffer

2004-05-25 Thread Tiago Rodrigues
Hi, this is my first post and It's not really laptop specific, but since I use debian on my laptop I belive it aplies. I have a compaq presario X1000 with an ATI radeon 9200, I instaled the ATI drivers and I'm happy with X resolution (1280x800) and 3D, only I can't seem to aply the correct resoluti

Re: FW: Console framebuffer

2004-05-25 Thread Hugo Santos
Tiago Rodrigues wrote: > Hi, this is my first post and It's not really laptop specific, but > since I use debian on my laptop I belive it aplies. I have a compaq > presario X1000 with an ATI radeon 9200, I instaled the ATI drivers > and I'm happy with X resolution (1280x800) and 3D, only I can't >

FW: Console framebuffer

2004-05-25 Thread Tiago Rodrigues
Hi, this is my first post and It's not really laptop specific, but since I use debian on my laptop I belive it aplies. I have a compaq presario X1000 with an ATI radeon 9200, I instaled the ATI drivers and I'm happy with X resolution (1280x800) and 3D, only I can't seem to aply the correct resoluti

Re: console framebuffer [Solved]

2003-08-14 Thread Brian P. Flaherty
Hello, After much googling (with many different search terms), I found a recent post about matroxfb and kernel-2.6.0-test2: http://lkml.org/lkml/2003/7/29/12 The key point is that (for some reason) the fb device needs to be compiled into the kernel, not as a module. I recompiled 2.6.0-test2 (De

Re: console framebuffer

2003-08-14 Thread Micha Feigin
On Mon, 2003-08-11 at 06:39, Brian P. Flaherty wrote: > Hello, > > When I installed the 2.4.21 kernel-image, I gave the radeonfb a try. > I have an IBM X31 with a Radeon Mobility M6 LY (according to lspci), > and I really liked the console with the framebuffer. (I liked it so > much that I starte

Re: console framebuffer [Solved]

2003-08-12 Thread Brian P. Flaherty
Hello, After much googling (with many different search terms), I found a recent post about matroxfb and kernel-2.6.0-test2: http://lkml.org/lkml/2003/7/29/12 The key point is that (for some reason) the fb device needs to be compiled into the kernel, not as a module. I recompiled 2.6.0-test2 (De

Re: console framebuffer

2003-08-12 Thread Micha Feigin
On Mon, 2003-08-11 at 06:39, Brian P. Flaherty wrote: > Hello, > > When I installed the 2.4.21 kernel-image, I gave the radeonfb a try. > I have an IBM X31 with a Radeon Mobility M6 LY (according to lspci), > and I really liked the console with the framebuffer. (I liked it so > much that I starte

console framebuffer

2003-08-11 Thread Brian P. Flaherty
Hello, When I installed the 2.4.21 kernel-image, I gave the radeonfb a try. I have an IBM X31 with a Radeon Mobility M6 LY (according to lspci), and I really liked the console with the framebuffer. (I liked it so much that I started to learn screen.) However, I was also quite interested in get

console framebuffer

2003-08-10 Thread Brian P. Flaherty
Hello, When I installed the 2.4.21 kernel-image, I gave the radeonfb a try. I have an IBM X31 with a Radeon Mobility M6 LY (according to lspci), and I really liked the console with the framebuffer. (I liked it so much that I started to learn screen.) However, I was also quite interested in get