From: Zack Winkles <winkie@linuxfromscratch.org>
To: Xan <DXpublica@telefonica.net>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [2.6.1] fbdev console: can't load vga=791 and yes vga=ask!
Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2004 23:06:40 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040127040640.GA31326@theorem093.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200401270153.12568.DXpublica@telefonica.net>
On Tue, Jan 27, 2004 at 01:53:12AM +0100, Xan wrote:
> I don't know if it's a bug of kernel, but I can't load 2.6.1 with vga=791 in
> LILO but yes with vga=ask.
>
> In the previous version (2.6.0), I remember that I got vga=791. But perhaps I
> a personal error.
You didn't mention what driver you're using, but with vesafb simply
using the values from Documentation/fb/vesafb.txt works for me. In my
case, I pass vga=0x317.
It seems that 2.6.x is a lot more sensitive to what you pass to vga=
than was the 2.4.x series...
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-01-27 4:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-01-27 0:53 Xan
2004-01-27 4:06 ` Zack Winkles [this message]
2004-01-27 12:24 ` Xan
2004-01-27 13:19 ` Kiko Piris
2004-01-27 17:59 ` Xan
2004-01-27 22:59 ` Kiko Piris
2004-01-27 23:37 ` James Simmons
2004-01-29 20:03 ` Kiko Piris
2004-01-28 0:39 ` Xan
2004-01-29 12:06 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2004-01-29 12:44 ` Xan
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