Re: Cant' switch to VESA VGA (I wanna see the grafik logo!)

Bradley Baetz (bbaetz@uuscss.cs.usyd.edu.au)
Mon, 20 Jul 1998 10:36:48 +1000

> > Well, I have 2 VESA Text modes in the list if tell the kernel "vga=ask"
> > and the kernel tells me that i have a vesa card in the headline of
> > "vga=ask" (but i don't know if this means that it is a VESA 2.0 card
> > which supports a linear frame buffer). The code after the "check_vesa"
> > mark in linux/arch/i386/boot/video.S just returns if the mode is ok or
> > not - what's about a more verbose message? ("badmdt" does not tell
> > anything except that it does not work. :-)
> >
> > But I guess that the S3 Virge card is VESA 2 compatible (it's not a very
> > old card). I can't find any manuals - so I'm not absolute sure about this.
> > How can I find out if I can use my card or not?
>
> I think S3 Virge BIOS supports only VESA 1.2 :-(
What about a Trio32? X says:
(--) S3: PCI: Trio32/64 rev 0, Linear FB @ 0xff000000
but I don't think its a VESA 2 card. There appears to be an fbcon for
S3Trio, but its in the config only for PowerMacs, and refers internally
to trio64 cards. Is there any point in using this type of FB? I want the
vgafb so that I can use multiple modes on different VCs, but will the
graphical framebuffers give anything else.

Then again, fbset-2.0-pre-19980713 won't compile -
gcc -Wall -O3 -c lex.yy.c -o lex.yy.o
In file included from modes.l:21:
fbset.h:34: parse error before `__u32'
fbset.h:34: warning: no semicolon at end of struct or union
and goes on from there.
glibc-2.0.7, gcc 2.7.2.3

Thanks,

Bradley

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