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Cheers, -- Rod Roark, Sunset Systems http://www.sunsetsystems.com/ Offering preconfigured Linux computers, custom software and remote system administration services. Public Key: http://www.sunsetsystems.com/rodspublickey.asc On Wednesday 23 July 2003 10:21 pm, Daniel Hurt wrote: > Greetings, > > I am a relatively marginal Linux user and have only used it when > necessary. Recently however, I started looking to use it as my primary > desktop environment and so I installed it on my Dell Inspiron 2600 > Laptop. I have chosen to install Gentoo UNIX. I went through quit a few > distributions to get here, but I have been very happy with it on my > desktop, however I have been having some trouble with it. A friend of > mine, Peter Salzman recommended that I give my problem a shot here. > > The problem that I am having is that the console display is stuck in > 640x480 mode on the 1024x768 display. I would really like to either get > the console to display the full resolution or just have the 640x480 cover > the entire screen. I have tried getting XFree going on it, but from what > I have read the driver support is sketchy at best and so I would like to > avoid that. > > So, now onto the solutions that I have tried. First, I tried using the > frame buffer support to force a different VGA mode from the boot up. This > did not produce any satisfactory results. I have gone through the > tutorials and tried several different kernel distributions and have not > gotten far at all. As some of the tutorials regarding this type of laptop > have suggested I updated the BIOS to the latest version. Then, I attempted > to set my laptop to a higher resolution than the 640x400 setting that it > is now. The problem is, right after the grub/lilo (I have tried both) boot > screen pops up (working fine in full screen) and it selects the VGA mode > to go into, no matter what is selected it goes to 640x400 in a small box. > I believe the frame buffer is working because I get the tux penguin to > display on the boot screen, but it is very pixilated and the colors are > all wrong. > > I have tried using the VGA console driver and then I have also tried using > the experimental support for the Intel 830 Console Driver Support in the > 2.4.21 Vanilla Kernel. > > My Lilo.conf Contains the following code: > lba32 > boot = /dev/hda > map = /boot/.map > install = /boot/boot-text.b > menu-scheme=Wb > prompt > timeout=150 > default=Gentoo > > #No Frame Buffer > image = /boot/bzImage > root = /dev/hda3 > label = Gentoo > read-only > > #Frame Buffer with VGA Drivers > image = /boot/vmlinuz > read-only > label = Test1 > vga = 791 > root = /dev/hda3 > initrd=/boot/initrd > > #Frame Buffer with Intel 830 > image = /boot/vmlinuz.new > read-only > label = Testing > root = /dev/hda3 > append="video=vga16:off" > vga=0x305 > initrd=/boot/initrd > > The next solution that I tried was trying to get SVGATextMode without > frame buffering going. I downloaded the sources, but was not able to get > them to compile on my machine. I am getting this error. > > cfgfile.y: At top level: > cfgfile.y:269: parse error before '*' token > cfgfile.y:269: warning: type defaults to `int' in declaration of `yyin' > cfgfile.y:269: warning: data definition has no type or storage class > make[1]: *** [y.tab.o] Error 1 > make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/ender/SVGATextMode-1.10' > make: *** [bininstall] Error 2 > > I then tried to get the new ebuild-beta patch which can be found > here:http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=19485 working but was not able > to either. > > I do not really need a higher resolution display right now (would be nice) > but the main thing that I would like is the console displayed full screen. > Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
