Matrox Framebuffer (was: Lost lilo.conf vga setting on 2.6 upgrade)

2004-07-05 Thread Bill Moseley
Ok, the reason I didn't have my nice small fonts was simply that I didn't enable framebuffer console support. Since I have a Matrox G550 Dual-Head card I decided to try the Matrox fb (Matrox Acceleration) instead of the vesafb. That works fine for console mode (although I'm not sure what dual-hea

Re: Lost lilo.conf vga setting on 2.6 upgrade

2004-07-02 Thread Bill Moseley
On Fri, Jul 02, 2004 at 07:34:20PM +0200, Andreas Janssen wrote: > Probably missing Framebuffer support. Did you use the bf24 Kernel > before? That one did come with compiled-in VESA framebuffer support. > Check the config of your 2.6 Kernel for this. Right, I don't have CONFIG_FB set in the new k

Re: Lost lilo.conf vga setting on 2.6 upgrade

2004-07-02 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello Bill Moseley (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > Under my 2.4 kernel I used > >vga=0x317 > > which was a nice small console font. > > Now with 2.6 vga=ask and then using "scan" I don't have that choice > any more (screen is blank if I use vga=0x317). Probably missing Framebuffer support.

Lost lilo.conf vga setting on 2.6 upgrade

2004-07-02 Thread Bill Moseley
Under my 2.4 kernel I used vga=0x317 which was a nice small console font. Now with 2.6 vga=ask and then using "scan" I don't have that choice any more (screen is blank if I use vga=0x317). Why do I not have that mode any more? The other interesting thing is in 2.6 my mouse moves *much* fas