On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 07:44:14PM -0500, Owen Heisler wrote:
Anyway, I tried some other video= lines and nothing makes any
difference. I tried vesafb, rivafb, and nvidiafb for the driver and
both 1024x768 (vga=791 works fine) and 1280x960 for the resolution (all
combinations for rivafb and
On Tue, 2007-05-22 at 09:33 +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote:
On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 07:44:14PM -0500, Owen Heisler wrote:
Anyway, I tried some other video= lines and nothing makes any
difference. I tried vesafb, rivafb, and nvidiafb for the driver and
both 1024x768 (vga=791 works fine) and
On Tue, May 22, 2007 at 07:24:40AM -0500, Owen Heisler wrote:
There doesn't seem to be a correct vga= parameter for 1280x960.
I was suggesting 791 as it is still better then the default and you can
see something happening (I just hate it when I mess with options and I
see no change :))
On Tue, 2007-05-22 at 18:56 +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote:
On Tue, May 22, 2007 at 07:24:40AM -0500, Owen Heisler wrote:
There doesn't seem to be a correct vga= parameter for 1280x960.
I was suggesting 791 as it is still better then the default and you can
see something happening (I just
On Tue, May 22, 2007 at 06:28:50PM -0500, Owen Heisler wrote:
So I add nvidiafb to /etc/initramfs-tools/modules, run
update-initramfs -u (this is fun) and now nvidia is also listed.
Now I reboot and try video=nvidiafb:1280x960 and
video=nvidiafb:1024x768 and get something slightly worse
On Sun, May 20, 2007 at 11:06:39PM -0400, cga2000 wrote:
I tried:
video=rivafb:1280x960
video=vesafb:1280x960
but neither worked.
You do realize that you may need to compile a custom kernel to enable
support for a given video card..?
Not necessarily. It should work if you
On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 02:44:29AM EDT, Andrei Popescu wrote:
On Sun, May 20, 2007 at 11:06:39PM -0400, cga2000 wrote:
I tried:
video=rivafb:1280x960
video=vesafb:1280x960
but neither worked.
You do realize that you may need to compile a custom kernel to enable
support
On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 08:18:37AM -0400, cga2000 wrote:
On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 02:44:29AM EDT, Andrei Popescu wrote:
On Sun, May 20, 2007 at 11:06:39PM -0400, cga2000 wrote:
I tried:
video=rivafb:1280x960
video=vesafb:1280x960
but neither worked.
You do realize
On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 12:35:57PM EDT, Andrei Popescu wrote:
On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 08:18:37AM -0400, cga2000 wrote:
On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 02:44:29AM EDT, Andrei Popescu wrote:
On Sun, May 20, 2007 at 11:06:39PM -0400, cga2000 wrote:
I tried:
video=rivafb:1280x960
On Mon, 2007-05-21 at 19:27 -0400, cga2000 wrote:
_Owen_,
What do you get .. a kernel oops .. a black screen of death .. a vga
console with oversized fonts ..?
With any video= parameter, I get the default resolution (640x480/80x25,
I suppose), just like there was no vga= or video=
On Sun, 2007-05-20 at 01:10 -0400, cga2000 wrote:
On Sat, May 19, 2007 at 07:33:51PM EDT, Owen Heisler wrote:
On Sat, 2007-05-19 at 19:10 -0400, Greg Folkert wrote:
On Fri, 2007-05-18 at 00:10 -0400, Greg Folkert wrote:
On Thu, 2007-05-17 at 18:34 -0500, Owen Heisler wrote:
On Thu,
On Sun, May 20, 2007 at 12:01:18PM EDT, Greg Folkert wrote:
[..}
Mind if I add snippets of you two posts to Owen to that Vesa Mode Page?
Not in principle naturally.
Just that I'd be a little concerned about the contents of my posts
possibly misleading others .. A clear case of I don't
On Sun, 2007-05-20 at 17:25 -0400, cga2000 wrote:
On Sun, May 20, 2007 at 12:01:18PM EDT, Greg Folkert wrote:
Mind if I add snippets of you two posts to Owen to that Vesa Mode Page?
Not in principle naturally.
[snip]
Oh, if you do decide to add something to your web page, please let me
On Sun, 2007-05-20 at 01:10 -0400, cga2000 wrote:
On Sat, May 19, 2007 at 07:33:51PM EDT, Owen Heisler wrote:
On Sat, 2007-05-19 at 19:10 -0400, Greg Folkert wrote:
On Fri, 2007-05-18 at 00:10 -0400, Greg Folkert wrote:
On Thu, 2007-05-17 at 18:34 -0500, Owen Heisler wrote:
On Thu,
On Sun, May 20, 2007 at 07:25:41PM EDT, Owen Heisler wrote:
[..]
A list of the available video drivers here (?):
http://linux-fbdev.sourceforge.net/driverlist.php
I tried:
video=rivafb:1280x960
video=vesafb:1280x960
but neither worked.
You do realize that you may need to compile a
On Fri, 2007-05-18 at 00:10 -0400, Greg Folkert wrote:
On Thu, 2007-05-17 at 18:34 -0500, Owen Heisler wrote:
On Thu, 2007-05-17 at 16:02 -0400, Greg Folkert wrote:
http://www.gregfolkert.net/info/vesa-display-codes.html
Very helpful! Although no 1280x960 (grr) unfortunately. Is there
On Sat, 2007-05-19 at 17:09 -0500, Owen Heisler wrote:
On Fri, 2007-05-18 at 00:10 -0400, Greg Folkert wrote:
On Thu, 2007-05-17 at 18:34 -0500, Owen Heisler wrote:
On Thu, 2007-05-17 at 16:02 -0400, Greg Folkert wrote:
http://www.gregfolkert.net/info/vesa-display-codes.html
Very
On Sat, 2007-05-19 at 19:10 -0400, Greg Folkert wrote:
On Fri, 2007-05-18 at 00:10 -0400, Greg Folkert wrote:
On Thu, 2007-05-17 at 18:34 -0500, Owen Heisler wrote:
On Thu, 2007-05-17 at 16:02 -0400, Greg Folkert wrote:
http://www.gregfolkert.net/info/vesa-display-codes.html
Very
On Sat, 2007-05-19 at 18:33 -0500, Owen Heisler wrote:
video=:xres:,yres:,depth:,left:,right:,hslen:,upper:,lower:,vslen:
It looks like I need something like this:
Modeline 1280x1024 DCF HR SH1 SH2 HFL VR SV1 SV2 VFL
Is there some way to get that from xorg?
And what do I use for the
On Sat, May 19, 2007 at 07:33:51PM EDT, Owen Heisler wrote:
On Sat, 2007-05-19 at 19:10 -0400, Greg Folkert wrote:
On Fri, 2007-05-18 at 00:10 -0400, Greg Folkert wrote:
On Thu, 2007-05-17 at 18:34 -0500, Owen Heisler wrote:
On Thu, 2007-05-17 at 16:02 -0400, Greg Folkert wrote:
On Sat, May 19, 2007 at 07:33:51PM EDT, Owen Heisler wrote:
On Sat, 2007-05-19 at 19:10 -0400, Greg Folkert wrote:
On Fri, 2007-05-18 at 00:10 -0400, Greg Folkert wrote:
On Thu, 2007-05-17 at 18:34 -0500, Owen Heisler wrote:
On Thu, 2007-05-17 at 16:02 -0400, Greg Folkert wrote:
On Thu, 2007-05-17 at 16:02 -0400, Greg Folkert wrote:
http://www.gregfolkert.net/info/vesa-display-codes.html
Very helpful! Although no 1280x960 (grr) unfortunately. Is there any
way to get that?
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On Thu, 2007-05-17 at 18:34 -0500, Owen Heisler wrote:
On Thu, 2007-05-17 at 16:02 -0400, Greg Folkert wrote:
http://www.gregfolkert.net/info/vesa-display-codes.html
Very helpful! Although no 1280x960 (grr) unfortunately. Is there any
way to get that?
vbetool is supposed to do it.
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