Re: VESA fb problem with 2.6.7-mm[567]

From: Giuseppe Bilotta
Date: Mon Jul 12 2004 - 11:56:50 EST


Grzegorz Kulewski wrote:
> On Sun, 11 Jul 2004, Ralf Hildebrandt wrote:
>
> > The nvidia graphics card in one of my laptops cannot be talked into
> > working with vesafb:
>
> Maybe try vesafb-tng at http://dev.gentoo.org/~spock/ .
> This is completly rewritten, better and more correct implementation with
> maany new features. See docs.
>
> It is working for me with nvidia binary drivers for X and vesafb-tng for
> console.

vesafb-tng doesn't work with my GeForce2 Go on an Inspiron 8200
if I set it to use maximu resolution (1600x1200). The screen
gets all messed up, as if the video mode wasn't set to match
the use of the framebuffer.

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Giuseppe "Oblomov" Bilotta

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