Re: graphical console problem

2004-11-08 Thread Kam-Ming Siu
Dear Luis, Try to tune the vertical lenght of your monitor manually(using the button on the screen). The problem seems to be the refresh rate has changed . There is a web page shows the usage of sisfb. It may help you. < http://www.winischhofer.at/linuxsisvga.shtml > As I know there is not a fi

Re: graphical console problem

2004-11-08 Thread Luis Finotti
Dear Ming and all, Thanks for the reply, Ming.  I really appreciate your help. I put "video=sisfb:mode:none" in the append part of lilo.conf and it did work (back to text mode), but now the computer try to fit more lines than it fits in the screen, in the sense that there are lines below what t

Re: graphical console problem

2004-11-07 Thread Kam-Ming Siu
Try to pass "video=sisfb:mode:none" to your kernel, just like pass vga=ask. This options tells kernel does not turn on the sis framebuffer. If this option works, you will bootup your machine in text console. At that point you can try to activate standard framebuffer by passing "vga=791" to your ker

graphical console problem

2004-11-07 Thread Luis Finotti
Hi, I am running Debian on my laptop and after an upgrade, it tries to enter in "graphical console mode". On boot I get: sisfb: Using MMIO qeue mode the screen goes blank and it enters in graphic mode (with the penguin on the screen), but it's all fuzzy. I can't use the text consoles (Ctrl+Alt