From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262714AbUCJREw (ORCPT ); Wed, 10 Mar 2004 12:04:52 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262709AbUCJREw (ORCPT ); Wed, 10 Mar 2004 12:04:52 -0500 Received: from kinesis.swishmail.com ([209.10.110.86]:43529 "EHLO kinesis.swishmail.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262720AbUCJREv (ORCPT ); Wed, 10 Mar 2004 12:04:51 -0500 Message-ID: <404F4DEA.5010200@techsource.com> Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2004 12:18:34 -0500 From: Timothy Miller MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: fbconsole, radeon, default mode? 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 I'm setting up a Gentoo system, and I have managed (despite my abject ignorance) to get fbconsole to work. Furthermore, I can get fbset to work and set whatever mode I want (I hate how fbset uses picoseconds instead of megahertz for dotclock, because you can't easily get the console display to exactly line up with the X server, but that's neither here nor there). I made an init script to call fbset on boot to set the consoles to the mode I want, but there are problems with that I would like to avoid. What I was wondering is if there was a way to program alternate default values into the console driver, say, as kernel config parameters or even boot parameters (I don't care which)... I could even tweak the source code! I don't want to give it just a resolution and have it GUESS about timing numbers, because I had to specially tweak the numbers to get console and X to line up, so I want to give the driver complete default timings. I have searched the kernel docs, and I have googled to no avail. Can someone here give me some suggestions? I'm running the latest Gentoo 2.4 kernel which is called "2.4.22-gentoo-r7", and I have a Radeon 9000 Pro card. Thanks!