"Brian S. Julin" wrote:
>
> On Mon, 17 Sep 2001, Sven Garbade wrote:
> > Thanks, this do the trick. There was already an appropiated mode with
> > 1024x768-100 in /etc/fb.modes, but it wasn't choosen. How do I make this
> > as the default one? Maybe but this on top of /etc/fb.modes?
>
> No, the boot mode is set before the kernel mounts the filesystem,
> the only modes you can set as default are those supported by the
> framebuffer driver. In the case of matroxfb, you are allowed to
> give a full timing in the kernel boot commandline, e.g. what I have on
> my machine that has a weird SoG fixed-rate monitor in my /etc/lilo.conf
> is this:
>
> image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.7.fbdev
> label=fbdev
> append="isapnp_reserve_irq=14,15
>video=matrox:vesa:794,sync:40,xres:1280,yres:1024,upper:33,lower:3,vslen:3,left:280,right:48,hslen:96,pixclock:9244"
> read-only
>
> However, you may also be able to use fbgetty to set the mode when
> the login prompts are displayed, by replacing your vc's getty
> program in /etc/inittab with an appropriate call to fbgetty.
Thanks for this tip. I've found a howto which describes how to convert
XF86 modelines to fb ones:
http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Framebuffer-HOWTO-18.html
By, Sven
