On Mon, 2002-09-09 at 23:50, Antony Stone wrote: > Hi. > > I'm using LinuxBios on an SiS630 motherboard (PC-Chips M810L). > > Is is essential to use the framebuffer device for video output under > LinuxBios, or can I boot it into a 'standard VGA' mode ? > > I tried changing HAVE_FRAMEBUFFER=1 to =0 and also removing it entirely from > my config file, but I just got no video output at all - the serial port told > me everything else was starting up okay though. >
Do you want VGA frame buffer or not ?? If you want framebuffer for SiS 630, you have to enable SiSFB Lite in the SiS LinuxBIOS patch. > If it is essential to use the framebuffer, is there any way to change the > refresh rate, because I'm using an old monitor which loses the top & bottom > of the screen (it doesn't have a vertical size control :-( ) when I boot > under LinuxBios. > SiSFB Lite accept standard kernel parameter for video mode. Read linux/Documentation/fb/modedb for more detail. Ollie _______________________________________________ Linuxbios mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
