Re: Framebuffer and 2.1.118

Tomasz Przygoda (Tomasz.Przygoda@securities.com)
Fri, 28 Aug 1998 09:38:15 -0400


Brian Lund wrote:

> I've enabled the support for framebuffer devices, and vesafb (I
> followed the framebuffer-HOWTO), the howto told me to try and type 0301 at
> the vgamode selection prompt, but the kernel says, that mode (and any other
> mode the HOWTO suggests) are invalid.

Are you sure that the HOWTO told you to enter 0301??
To me it looks like it is 0x0301 and vga= expects non-hex number so I think you
need to try actually vga=769

-- Tomek,
"Linux, WinNT and MS-DOS - the Good, the Bad and the Ugly"

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