On Mon, Jun 04, 2007 at 07:58:45PM -0700, maxim wexler wrote: > Geert Uytterhoeven, who's listed as the author at the > end of man fbset, pointed out that since I only have > one video card, I only need one framebuffer, whereas I > had two: ATI and VESA. So I reconfig'd w/o VESA and > removed the video=vesafb... from the kernel line in > grub.conf. > > Then I put fbset -a 1024x768-76 in local.start and > rebooted. The framebuffer opens up beautifully.
Excellent :) Always helps to ask someone who known what they're talking about > I think I should put it in /etc/inittab but where? > Does it matter? Or maybe it should be > video=aty128fb...on the kernel line. Still some > tweaking to do. But I think most of the heavy lifting > is over. I would have thought video=aty128fb:[EMAIL PROTECTED] in grub.conf should do it. Have a look at /usr/src/linux/Documentation/fb/aty128fb.txt for a few other options. I wouldn't mess around with inittab if you can possibly help it. Glad to hear it's mostly working, -Nick -- GPG Key : www.njw.me.uk/nick.gpg.asc GPG Key ID: 04E4653F GPG Fingerprint: 9732 D7C7 A441 D79E FDF0 94F6 1F48 5674 04E4 653F
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