On Thu, 2003-01-02 at 18:26, Tom Brinkman wrote:
> Yes, at least my GeF2 does support fb, most all cards do, but
> there's some, mostly ready made non standard ones that don't. So Ron,
> just change to vga=0x311, you'll eliminate the bootsplash an get
> bigger text ;> 'Course thru all this discussion I've been remiss to
> mention that 'rpm -e bootsplash' will also get rid of it ;)
> --
> Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas
Since all three of us have basically the same card, I did a little
legwork and compiled a chart of working VESA modes for our chipset.
There should not be much variance between our cards, I wouldn't think;
except for memory. Mine's got 64 megs. I noticed right away that *none*
of the 32k color modes were working. But here is what I found....
Kernel VESA mode numbers:
| 640x480 800x600 1024x768 1280x1024
----+-------------------------------------
256 | 0x301 0x303 0x305 0x307
32k | ----- ----- ----- -----
64k | 0x311 0x314 0x317 0x31A
16M | 0x312 0x315 0x318 -----
These numbers should be valid for a GeForce2. I find it strange that
1280x1024@16M doesn't work.
I didn't see much console speed difference between the modes. Since
I've got a 20" monitor, I just left mine in 0x31A. ;) Now I can go to
vc/1, then cd to /usr/bin and halfway see a respectable amount all at
once with an ls. <g> It's the bomb!
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