I remember back in '99 when Chip Rosenthal wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 10, 1999 at 04:06:59PM -0500, Daniel Rogers wrote:
> > I would start thinking about soliciting recommendations for a
> > new card.
>
> Or use the unaccelerated VESA framebuffer device. That's what I
> did to get my ATI LT Rage running, and it is entirely tolerable.
Also works well for those peksy laptop chipsets.
Summary of what to do:
Compile a kernel with VESA framebuffer support
Boot lilo with vga=0x317 (ex-- I think that's 1024x768x16bits)
If you get that working, download the X framebuffer server
(XF86_FBDev) and craete an apropriate XF config file..
There is a Framebuffer HOWTO (or mini-howto) out there some where,
but I can't find it a present. Also, the linux source Documentation/fb
directory has a redme for vesafb that lists what the 0x3?? modes
are.
Matt
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