On 5 Sep 2000, Marcus Sundberg wrote:
> Andreas Beck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > Q: I am trying to run on the vesafb driver, but it doesn't work.
> >
> > A: There are two common problems with the vesafb driver:
> > 1. It has to be activated _explictly_ at boot. Please read
> > /usr/doc/linux/Documentation/fb/vesafb.txt on how to do this.
>
> That's a distribution specific path.
> /usr/src/linux... would probably more likely to exist, although all
> systems doesn't have that either.
Right. Andy has the RH distribution. I have the SuSE distribution.
In RH it is in /usr/doc/linux/Documentation/fb/...
In SuSE it is in /usr/src/linux/Documentation/fb/...
In which path is it in the debian one?
> > 2. It cannot switch modes. This is a VESA limitation, not a driver
> > limitation.
>
> Well, it is not a GGI limitation, but it _is_ a driver limit. I
> think I even saw a patch to use the VESA real-mode interface to
> switch modes.
Yep. You can switch between differenet VESA-modes under DOS.
CU,
Christoph Egger
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