Re: Cant' switch to VESA VGA (I wanna see the grafik logo!)
Martin Mares (mj@albireo.ucw.cz)
Sun, 19 Jul 1998 22:07:08 +0200
> i'm running Kernel 2.1.109 + 109ac2 + devfs on my test box here. The
> framebuffer device is a S3 Virge. I tried allready a few modes (600x640
> and 800x600 with 8, 15 and 16 bit colordepth). I calculated the numbers
> for "vga=" as follows:
>
> hex2dec( <number from linux/Documentation/fb/vesafb.txt> + 0x200 );
>
> So the decimal numbers are e.g. 788 (0x314) for 800x600 with 16 bit colors
> or 769 (0x301) for 640x480 with 8 bit colors. I get all the time a
> message like "you passed an undefined mode." - but the debuging message
> of "vga=ask" tells me the it dedected my card as a VESA VGA Card (what is
> right).
Are you sure your VGA BIOS supports VESA modes?
Have a nice fortnight
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Martin `MJ' Mares <mj@ucw.cz> http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~mj/
Faculty of Math and Physics, Charles University, Prague, Czech Rep., Earth
"A bug in the code is worth two in the documentation."
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