> On Sun, 7 Feb 1999, Dustin Marquess wrote:
>
> >
> > I have a Creative Labs Graphics Blaster TNT PCI card (using
> > the nVidia Riva TNT chipset).
> >
> > If I enable the VESA framebuffer support in the 2.2.0 kernel,
> > as soon as LILO boots the kernel, nothing else is outputted to my
> > monitor, even though I can hear the system load...
> >
>
> <GRIN> Been there done that <GRIN>
>
> It's not just the TNT it will happen to anycard if you do not do one of
> the following:
>
> 1> Enable VGA text console - but this wont use the FB
>
> 2> Enable video mode selection, add vga=ask in lilo.conf and put in a mode
> listed in Documentation/fb/vesa.txt when asked. - This does use the FB
>
> Once you work out which mode you like change the vga=modenumber (check
> this you may have to convert it to base 10 - decimal)
Ahhh, thanks... I didn't have to do that w/ the TGA
framebuffer on the Alpha :).
Now to just get SVGAlib's VESA support working with the VESA
fb, so I can get hi-res on my TNT card... *sigh*.
Thanks again,
-Dustin
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