Hi ! > nVidia RIVA (ASUS AGP) - which KGICON had recognized and it has 8160 KBy of > RAM etc... Yeah - Riva support is somewhat flakey. The problem is, that noone seems to be interested in maintaining drivers. The only safe bet for a working card seems to be a permedia2 based card, which is what I have, because I do maintain the driver that really works for my board (X crashes often). > 1) When I boot it via "insmod kgicon.o" via DEFAULTs in "fbcon-kgi.c", i.e. I suppose this is a Riva problem, as the riva driver is IIRC written for the Riva 128, while you probably have a TNT - right ? > kgifb_init: xres 640 yres 480 bpp 8 vaddr at 0xc28290 > fb1: KGI frame buffer device using 8160KBy of video memory installed > (of course I have read it later-)) Seems the card gets detected and tries to come up at 640x480x8. > 2) I've tryed later to change resolution (to global variables at the > begining of the "fbcon-kgi.c" at "/degas/kgicon/kgi") I put You shouldn't do that. The idea is to use insmod-parameters like in modprobe kgicon.o kgicon_bpp=8 Allowed parms are: MODULE_PARM(kgicon_width, "1-2048i"); MODULE_PARM(kgicon_height, "1-2048i"); MODULE_PARM(kgicon_bpp, "1-32i"); MODULE_PARM(kgicon_inverse, "0-1i"); MODULE_PARM(ramdac_mhz, "1-1024i"); MODULE_PARM(kgicon_mtrr, "0-1i"); > width=800, height=600, bpp=16 but result was pretty same except it (PC) > caught keyboard input! BUT the screen was black again! Yeah. probably limitation of the driver, which is seemingly not maintained nicely ... > has again xres 640 yres 480 (????) <- is it because of that "card" or "display" > structure - what to put there I have no nVidia RIVA data-book? It might be a problem with the monitor driver. The generic driver comes up in VGA-only mode. I use a script to start up my KGI system: #!/bin/bash PATH=/sbin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/sbin modprobe kgicon.o kgicon_bpp=8 setmon fbset 1280x1024x16 This will boot up the kgicon driver in VGA-compatible mode, the set up the generic monitor driver and then fbset to my preferred mode. > Who is the nVidia RIVA maintainer and is it because of the card or KGIcon > maybe? I'd really like to know that as well. The driver contains no markings at all ... no (c), no MAINTAINER #define, ... I'll CC this mail to the ggi mailing list, so that the maintainer can be found and maybe gets in touch with you. CU, ANdy -- = Andreas Beck | Email : <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> =
