On 4 March 2015 at 06:39, Paul Rogers <[email protected]> wrote:
> > You may want to check, but I think the i7 processor has an Intel GPU > > on the chip. > > This is neither here nor there for my question, but some do, some don't. > This is an i7-940, Socket LGA1366, "Tylersburg" X58 Express chipset. The > Socket LGA1156, [HPQ]5[57] chipsets have the integrated graphics. This > video card is an odd duck--the reason I was given it--it's straight PCI, > not PCI Express! > > I've read the Documentation/fb files, but they don't help me much. I > need to understand the higher level use of framebuffers too. > Have a look at DirectFB, MPlayer, Links and fbi, to name but a few applications. These all work well with the framebuffer on *LFS. As a point of information I could never get video= to work but vga=792 works for me. I should point out that I use Syslinux rather than Grub2, which is far too bloated for me. Richard
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