Re: setting framebuffer mode during boot

2000-07-29 Thread Nate Duehr
No familiarity here yet with framebuffer but for the vga/vesa stuff, have you tried setting vga=ask and getting the menu at boot-time to see what your card claims it supports? I usually do that and then hardcode the one that I like the best into the lilo.conf afterwards. On Fri, Jul 28, 2000 at

setting framebuffer mode during boot

2000-07-28 Thread Gilbert Laycock
I have framebuffer support compiled into my kernel, and I want to set the screen mode it uses when I boot. Currently it defaults to a 640x480/80x30 mode, and I want to set it to a higher resolution. I have an ATI Rage Pro card, so I think I should be using the atyfb frambuffer module. According