From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 2 Apr 2003 15:56:12 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 2 Apr 2003 15:56:12 -0500 Received: from smtp02.mrf.mail.rcn.net ([207.172.4.61]:48064 "EHLO smtp02.mrf.mail.rcn.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 2 Apr 2003 15:56:10 -0500 Message-ID: <3E8B5119.5000508@rcn.com> Date: Wed, 02 Apr 2003 16:07:37 -0500 From: Mike Tangolics User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030313 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Matthew Hall CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: 2.5 Kernel Framebuffer Problems References: <1049282302.745.24.camel@sheeta> In-Reply-To: <1049282302.745.24.camel@sheeta> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Matthew Hall wrote: >On Tue, 2003-04-01 at 19:31, mtangolics@rcn.com wrote: > > >>I've had a couple of problems with framebuffer console, when >>compiling several different versions of the 2.5 kernel. I >>included all the FB support, but when I boot up using, LILO >>option, vga=791 or anything about normal, the screen either >>goes black, and the system stops responding or the entire >>screen becomes scrambled. I have an NVidia Geforce4 video >>card if that matters. I've talked to a couple other users >>who have encountered the same problem. It's most likely just >>a stupid mistake on my part, but any help would be extremely >>appreciated. >> >> > >What does your lilo.conf line for 2.5 look like? >You may need to append some video information, eg. > >append="video=rivafb,xres:1024,yres:768,bpp:8" > >Matt > > My lilo.conf line looks this generally: I left out the minor numbers because I don't have a specific kernel running right now.. image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.5 root = /dev/hdb2 label = Linux-2.5 read-only plus at the top: vga=791