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t_ziel
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 Posted: Thu May 11, 2006 7:43 pm Post subject: Frame Buffer |
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| How can I enable frame buffer and set high resolution (1024x768, 800x600) in console? Thank You for advice. |
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sofar
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| Posted: Thu May 11, 2006 9:57 pm Post subject: read |
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| that depends on your bootloader and kernel. Please read `man lilo`, `info grub` and /usr/src/linux/Documentation/fb/* |
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t_ziel
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| Posted: Thu May 11, 2006 11:26 pm Post subject: Re: read |
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| sofar wrote: | | that depends on your bootloader and kernel. Please read `man lilo`, `info grub` and /usr/src/linux/Documentation/fb/* |
Thanks, I will read this docs. BTW. What do You recommend, grub right? |
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ElAngelo
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| Posted: Fri May 12, 2006 6:56 am Post subject: |
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most ppl on lunar will use lilo...
but since the 1.6.0 cd grub works perfectly fine...
options you should turn on in the kernel :
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│ │ Device Drivers ---> │ │
│ │ Graphics support ---> │ │
│ │ <*> Support for frame buffer devices │ │
│ │ [*] VESA VGA graphics support │ │
│ │ Console display driver support ---> │ │
│ │ [*] Video mode selection support │ │
│ │ <*> Framebuffer Console support │ │
│ │ Logo configuration ---> │ │
│ │ [*] Bootup logo │ │
│ │ [*] Standard 16-color Linux logo │ │
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that are all the option you should turn on...
mind you ... don't use the nvidia/riva fb drivers as they are not compatible with the binary NVIDIA driver (closed source provided by nvidia.com) (that's when you have an nvidia card...)
add vga=794 in the kernel line for 1280x786 in your menu.lst:
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title 2.6.16.14
kernel /2.6.16.14 root=/dev/sda2 ro vga=794
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t_ziel
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| Posted: Fri May 12, 2006 10:08 am Post subject: |
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ElAngelo You are Great. Thank You  |
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t_ziel
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| Posted: Sat May 13, 2006 2:13 pm Post subject: |
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I have got only blank screen (everything works fine, I can login but I cannot see anything on console). Should I create:
mknod /dev/fb1 c 29 32
mknod /dev/fb2 c 29 64
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The X Reality
Joined: 17 Jan 2006
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| Posted: Sun May 14, 2006 6:59 pm Post subject: nVidia Woes |
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| The VESA framebuffer will not work with nVidia cards. Every time I've tried has resulted in the text before the framebuffer frozen on the screen with a blue blinking cursor. I've been at a loss as to what to do other than either use Gentoo's VESAfb-TNG or go without one. |
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ElAngelo
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| Posted: Sun May 14, 2006 7:29 pm Post subject: |
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| well it seems to work perfectly fine here... both on my tnt2, gf4ti4400, gf5700fx and gf6200... without a glitch... of course you must select correct resolutions... |
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t_ziel
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| Posted: Sun May 14, 2006 8:07 pm Post subject: |
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I have realized that I have commited mistakes in kernel configuration, ElAngelo is probably correct...
Thanks and regards! |
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