Re: NVidia Card and Framebuffer Support

2002-10-30 Thread andrej hocevar
On Tue, Oct 29, 2002 at 11:39:11AM -0700, Dale K Dicks wrote: > I want to be able to use vga=791 as a kernel option on boot. Currently > if I try to do this I get a black screen so I have to use vga=7. > > I have an NVidia Geforce 3 card. I tried to cat /dev/fb0 but I get: > > cat: /dev/fb0: N

Re: NVidia Card and Framebuffer Support

2002-10-30 Thread andrej hocevar
On Tue, Oct 29, 2002 at 10:44:38AM -0800, nate wrote: > you need at least CONFIG_FB compiled into the kernel, chances are > more stuff as well, I don't use framebuffer on my systems but Well, certainly not that much! :) Enabling (almost) all options doesn't seem to be a good solution, or am I wron

Re: NVidia Card and Framebuffer Support

2002-10-29 Thread nate
Dale K Dicks said: > I want to be able to use vga=791 as a kernel option on boot. Currently > if I try to do this I get a black screen so I have to use vga=7. > > I have an NVidia Geforce 3 card. I tried to cat /dev/fb0 but I get: > > cat: /dev/fb0: No such device > > I looked through all the ker

NVidia Card and Framebuffer Support

2002-10-29 Thread Dale K Dicks
I want to be able to use vga=791 as a kernel option on boot. Currently if I try to do this I get a black screen so I have to use vga=7. I have an NVidia Geforce 3 card. I tried to cat /dev/fb0 but I get: cat: /dev/fb0: No such device I looked through all the kernel options and didn't see fram