On Tue, 26 Oct 1999, Piyush Patnaik wrote:
> Thanks John,
Yep good catch i had to re-read :)
> I rectified the kernel.....but its only working in the text mode. X doesn't
> start properly, I mean the display is not working properly....I can only see a
> few streeks of X with many tiny copies of it on the top of my display. Can you
> tell me where might the problem be? I start linux with vga mode 788 in lilo.conf
> and it displays text fine....but its not running X.!
788? either my conversion skills are failing me, or bloody wow how big is
your monitor 8-). Could be a virtual res problem (hopefully), or a sync
problem (ew). You have set the XF86Config obviously, did you set the res
as the fbset -x, or as "default"?
> The reason I'm opting for a framebuffer is because XFree86 doesnot support my
> video card - Silicon Motion LynxE.
>
> John Aldrich wrote:
>
> > On Mon, 25 Oct 1999, you wrote:
> > > To start with, during installation from the CD I enabled framebuffer
> > > use.....after that I made changes to my lilo.conf....here is my lilo.conf:
> > >
> > > boot=/dev/hda
> > > map=/boot/boot.b
> > > prompt
> > > timeout=50
> > > image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.9-27mdk
> > >
> > Looks like you don't have a frame-buffer kernel. Should be
> > kernel-fb-2.2.9-27mdk or something like that instead of
> > "vmlinuz-2.2.9-27mdk" I think. Why do you need frame-buffer
> > anyway? IIRC, it's not as good as having direct support for
> > the video.
> > John
>
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