From: Jim Nelson <james4765@verizon.net>
To: James Miller <jamtat@mailsnare.net>
Cc: linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: framebuffer console problems
Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2004 18:42:00 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <41798CB8.4010701@verizon.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0410221604590.1287@debian-emach>
James Miller wrote:
> On Fri, 22 Oct 2004, Jim Nelson wrote:
>
>
>>If you are using a 2.6 kernel (and maybe the 2.4), the kernel module for
>>the ATI Rage series of graphics systems is aty128fb, not atyfb. I've
>>had problems with vesafb myself, but with really old hardware (Trident
>>TGUI 9660 on an old Thinkpad).
>
>
> Thanks for your response, Jim. Not sure if you recall what sort of card I
> mentioned, but it's an older, onboard one with low memory. According to
> an infomrational page I found at
> www.sharplabs.com:8668/space/video+boot+arguments , I should be using the
> atyfb module (and they do list the aty128fb there for other ATI Rage
> models). So, do you still think I"m using the wrong module? I really
> don't know. I consider myself a total neophyte at this
>
>
Heh, my bad. In the kernel configuration, atyfb is listed as belonging
to the Mach64 family, and a quick peruse of
drivers/video/aty/atyfb_base.c listed the early Rage cards. Didn't
realize the Rage and Rage 128 were that different.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-10-22 22:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-10-22 16:42 framebuffer console problems James Miller
2004-10-22 19:00 ` James Miller
2004-10-22 20:08 ` Ray Olszewski
2004-10-22 21:02 ` James Miller
2004-10-22 21:49 ` James Miller
2004-10-22 20:09 ` Jim Nelson
2004-10-22 21:14 ` James Miller
2004-10-22 22:42 ` Jim Nelson [this message]
2004-10-23 4:40 ` James Miller
2004-10-23 20:06 ` framebuffer console problems: not enough video RAM? James Miller
2004-10-23 22:00 ` Ray Olszewski
2004-10-24 3:16 ` James Miller
2004-10-24 5:02 ` Ray Olszewski
2004-10-24 5:45 ` James Miller
2004-10-24 16:07 ` Ray Olszewski
2004-10-24 20:00 ` James Miller
2004-10-25 17:43 ` What distributions support dual processors 'out of the box' ? chuck gelm
2004-10-25 20:26 ` Owen Ford
2004-10-27 12:59 ` framebuffer console problems: not enough video RAM? Stephen Samuel
2004-10-23 22:17 ` Ray Olszewski
2004-10-24 3:25 ` James Miller
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