From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jim Nelson Subject: Re: framebuffer console problems Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2004 18:42:00 -0400 Sender: linux-newbie-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <41798CB8.4010701@verizon.net> References: <417968FE.3070405@verizon.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: James Miller Cc: linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org 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. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs