framebuffer and lilo

Hello i can't manage to make the framebuffer of my Riva TNT M64 32M work at boot time: i have all the settings in hand with fbset, timings and all, all i need is to tell the kernel at boot time. here is a part of my lilo.conf: <...> image=/boot/kern/k245-fb label=xrv-fb # append=

Re: Uploaded fetchmail 5.3.3-3 (i386) to erlangen

On Wed, Aug 08, 2001 at 01:04:31PM +, Vittorio wrote: > I've subscribed the debian-changes list and now I'm somewhat confused > by their subjects in which (I put it one in the subject of this > message of mine) they say that files are uploaded to "erlangen". > > What the hell `erlangen' is? e

Re: what is a framebuffer?

On Thu, Aug 09, 2001 at 12:25:11AM -0400, Faheem Mitha wrote: > > Dear People, > > This is possibly offtopic, but can someone explain to me what a > framebuffer is, and why one should care about it? I have seen it mentioned > quite often on this newsgroup, most often in connection with recent Mat