Re: who sets boot_params[].screen_info.orig_video_isVGA?

[gl@dsa-ac.de]

On Mon, 5 Sep 2005, Matthew Garrett wrote:

> Yup. You probably want to take a look at Documentation/fb/vesafb.txt -
> the modes are the same.

Great, thanks! I tried VESA 0x111 (Linux 0x311) - it is also what is used 
by xfree86 vesa driver, after I've followed the suggestion from Tony 
(cc'ed and quoted below) and tried X with vesa. The kernel boots, intelfb 
driver doesn't exit, I can even start X over fb and it runs! But:

1) both screens - LCD and CRT bocome black as soon as intelfb takes over 
and stay that way also under X

2) kernel logs fill with

intelfb: the cursor was killed - restore it !!
intelfb: size 8, 16   pos 0, 464

Buggy video BIOS?...

On Tue, 6 Sep 2005, Antonino A. Daplas wrote:

> One good method is to use the "vesa" driver of Xorg/Xfree86.  Check
> /var/log/X*.log and it should have a nice list of vesa mode id's that
> are supported.
>
> Then add 0x200 to any of them and use it in your vga= parameter.

Thanks
Guennadi
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