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Old 01-24-2009, 12:07 PM   #1
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uvesafb not working


Hi
I installed uvesafb but it is not working I added video=uvesafb:1440x900-8@60 as a boot parameter but framebuffer resulotion ist still low. like there wouldnt be any parameter

cat /sys/devices/platform/uvesafb.0/vbe_modes gives me
Code:
768x480-8, 0x0160
768x480-16, 0x0161
768x480-32, 0x0162
960x600-8, 0x0163
960x600-16, 0x0164
960x600-32, 0x0165
1280x800-8, 0x0166
1280x800-16, 0x0167
1280x800-32, 0x0168
1440x900-8, 0x0169
1440x900-16, 0x016a
1440x900-32, 0x016b
1024x768-8, 0x0105
1024x768-16, 0x0117
1024x768-32, 0x0118
640x480-32, 0x0112
800x600-16, 0x0114
800x600-32, 0x0115
640x480-8, 0x0101
800x600-8, 0x0103
640x480-16, 0x0111
cat /sys/devices/platform/uvesafb.0/driver/v86d gives
Code:
/sbin/v86d
cat /sys/devices/platform/uvesafb.0/graphics/fb0/modes gives
Code:
U:1440x900p-60
D:1440x900p-59
U:800x600p-59
U:640x480p-60
U:1024x768p-60
U:1440x900p-59
U:1280x800p-60
U:960x600p-59
U:768x480p-60
cat /sys/devices/platform/uvesafb.0/oem_string
Code:
Intel(r)Cantiga Graphics Chip Accelerated VGA BIOS
I'm using Gentoo Linux AMD64 with kernel 2.6.28
 
  


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