From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: James Miller Subject: Re: framebuffer console problems Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2004 23:40:06 -0500 (CDT) Sender: linux-newbie-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: References: <417968FE.3070405@verizon.net> <41798CB8.4010701@verizon.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: In-Reply-To: <41798CB8.4010701@verizon.net> List-Id: Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org The framebuffer how to documentation actually gives two lilo arguments for the ati cards: vga=791 ("to make the display sane" as they say) and video=atyfb:1024x768@75 after the "append" argument. They presume you've compiled the atyfb module into your kernel (which I haven't, though I made an initrd with that module in it). I haven't quite understood a couple of things--one being how to adapt the lilo stuff to grub. I see no "append" argument in my grub file, nor can I find much on the web about how lilo arguments translate to grub ones. Overall the Grub documentation stinks: I've managed to turn up nearly nothing on the various possible video= vga= arguments and variants, how to use them and what they do. The man page is kind of worthless. Plenty of folks mention in passing such lines from their menu.lst files, but there's not alot of consistency. The other thing that's confusing me is what the relation between vga= and video= is: are they two separate commands that don't interfere with one another or are they mututally exclusive? The lilo.conf example given in the framebuffer how to seems to indicate that they are separate and do different things, not being mutually exclusive. When I've tried vga=791 and video=atyfb:1024x768 together in my menu.lst (vga= first) though, I see in /var/log/messages that the atyfb module doesn't load and get connected with my video hardware. When I leave out vga= though, the module does load and get assigned to the hardware. But an error appears there about not being able to initialize vesafb0. So, can anyone help me figure out the relation between these two? Do I need them both, and in some particular order? Or is one or the other going to work for me? Thanks, James - 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