From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: jpgarcia@execpc.com Message-Id: <200011072304.RAA23594@localhost.localdomain> Date: Tue, 7 Nov 2000 17:04:09 -0600 (CST) Subject: Re: bad vidmode on debian install To: sjh@wibble.net cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org In-Reply-To: <20001108094625.B10734@svana.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: On 8 Nov, Steven Hanley wrote: > it is a Mach 64 video card > >> Do you have 834x624 and more than 8 bit color depth? If yes, change the >> resolution or set the color depth to 8 bit. > > wouldnt doing this involve the passing of a video=atyfb:vmode:8 or some such > ? vmode for resolution, using values available in nvvideo's manpage cmode for color mode (bit count works). in reference to the nervous text, I get this on my PDQ when the mclk is set incorrectly. this can be specified using the mclk: param. my cmdline is "video=atyfb:vmode:14,cmode:32,mclk:100", but I am aware that earlier systems, even wallstreets use smaller mclk values. the default/autodetect in the kernel does not work for me. could try 83 or 60, two other fairly successful values IIRC. Hope this is helpful. -- Joseph P. Garcia jpgarcia@execpc.com jpgarcia@lidar.ssec.wisc.edu CS Undergraduate Student Employee - Systems Programmer University of Wisconsin - Madison UW Lidar Group ** Sent via the linuxppc-dev mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/