Re: vesa & v2.1.109
Yiannis (ipm@soc.unl.ac.uk)
Mon, 20 Jul 1998 23:15:03 +0000 (GMT)
> In lists.linux.kernel you write:
>
> >Hi guys,
>
> >I've just realised that my graphic card is VESA 1.2 compliant and not VESA
> >2.0. Could this account for some people having problems using the vesafb
> >console? If that is so, it might be a nice idea to add an additional
> >vesafb module (say vesafb 1.2), and rename the vesafb to vesafb 2.0? This
> >might help to keep the legacy 1.2 graphic cards working with Linux's
> >vesafb.
>
> No.
>
actually there is cheap and dirty way to do...but you have to boot into
dos first...
Mr Knorr might remember my post about me bugging him regarding why Vesa
console didnt work...it actualy was the 1.2 compliance problem..which can
be bypased though thusly..
get Scitech display doctor for DoS first..install it and then have loadlin
handy on your dos partition (assuming there is one)..the rest is up to
you.Personaly i use a batch file that loads up SDD enables VESA 2.0 and
Framebuffer then loads my kernel passing the relevant kernel boot
parameters to it...hey presto..i;m running 800x600x16k ..
my Graphics card is an old Diamond Stealth 64 PCI..S3 764 as chipset..
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