Re: fb support in 2.1.109

Martin Mares (mj@albireo.ucw.cz)
Fri, 17 Jul 1998 09:47:59 +0200

> i just compiled and ran 2.1.109 with frame buffer support. The
> plain VGA 80x25 mode works perfectly but i'm having problems with getting
> this stuff to work in a graphical mode. Can someone explain to me how to
> set it up? There doesn't seem to be a simple to follow doc out there that
> would tell me step by step what to do :). Thanks in advance.

Currently we have no real VGA graphics mode frame buffer driver. The only
thing you might try to use is the VESA frame buffer, but it requires your
video BIOS to support linear frame buffer which is not too frequent case.
To set it up, run the kernel with vga=ask, enter ID of some VESA graphics
mode (e.g., 0303 for 800x600x8) and vesafb should start working.

Have a nice fortnight

-- 
Martin `MJ' Mares   <mj@ucw.cz>   http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~mj/
Faculty of Math and Physics, Charles University, Prague, Czech Rep., Earth
"COBOL -- Compiles Only Because Of Luck"


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