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I compiled 2.4.18 kernel because 2.4.5 that come with slack doesn't work with my Realtek network card. after install 2.4.18, everything works fine, except lilo vga mode. I read some old post about frambuffer, I did enable it,VGA TEXT mode and VESA VGA, but I still can't get high resolution (vga=791) during bootup. I was able to get vga=791 before with 2.4.5
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Also, during boot up I got couple msg about "modprobe: can't locate xxxxxxx", however my whole system works fine. Where/which file should I look to to see the modprobe settings..
you did enable the experimental options in the code maturity section of menuconfig? what do you mean by "high" resolution? are you actually running a framebuffer already just in low res?? i'd presume you aren't
In response to your second question try cd /etc/rc.d/. There will be a bunch of "rc" files, it will most likely be somewhere in rc.modules. It's kind of a big file so look at exactly what "xxxxxxx" is and try to narrow down what section it is in. Once you find it comment it out by putting a # sign in front of it.
Originally posted by acid_kewpie you did enable the experimental options in the code maturity section of menuconfig? what do you mean by "high" resolution? are you actually running a framebuffer already just in low res?? i'd presume you aren't
Hi, I did enable the the experimental option in the code maturity section.
when I had 2.4.5, my text mode was 1024x768. Right now I am just in low-res...80x25. I did enble the framebuffer support, vga text mode support and vesa bga support for 2.4.18
#
# Console drivers
#
CONFIG_VGA_CONSOLE=y
CONFIG_VIDEO_SELECT=y
# CONFIG_MDA_CONSOLE is not set
#
# Frame-buffer support
#
CONFIG_FB=y
CONFIG_DUMMY_CONSOLE=y
# CONFIG_FB_RIVA is not set
# CONFIG_FB_CLGEN is not set
# CONFIG_FB_PM2 is not set
# CONFIG_FB_CYBER2000 is not set
CONFIG_FB_VESA=y
# CONFIG_FB_VGA16 is not set
# CONFIG_FB_HGA is not set
CONFIG_VIDEO_SELECT=y
# CONFIG_FB_MATROX is not set
# CONFIG_FB_ATY is not set
# CONFIG_FB_RADEON is not set
# CONFIG_FB_ATY128 is not set
# CONFIG_FB_SIS is not set
# CONFIG_FB_3DFX is not set
# CONFIG_FB_VOODOO1 is not set
# CONFIG_FB_VIRTUAL is not set
CONFIG_FBCON_ADVANCED=y
# CONFIG_FBCON_MFB is not set
# CONFIG_FBCON_CFB2 is not set
# CONFIG_FBCON_CFB4 is not set
CONFIG_FBCON_CFB8=y
CONFIG_FBCON_CFB16=y
CONFIG_FBCON_CFB24=y
CONFIG_FBCON_CFB32=y
# CONFIG_FBCON_AFB is not set
# CONFIG_FBCON_ILBM is not set
# CONFIG_FBCON_IPLAN2P2 is not set
# CONFIG_FBCON_IPLAN2P4 is not set
# CONFIG_FBCON_IPLAN2P8 is not set
# CONFIG_FBCON_MAC is not set
# CONFIG_FBCON_VGA_PLANES is not set
# CONFIG_FBCON_VGA is not set
# CONFIG_FBCON_HGA is not set
# CONFIG_FBCON_FONTWIDTH8_ONLY is not set
CONFIG_FBCON_FONTS=y
CONFIG_FONT_8x8=y
CONFIG_FONT_8x16=y
# CONFIG_FONT_SUN8x16 is not set
# CONFIG_FONT_SUN12x22 is not set
# CONFIG_FONT_6x11 is not set
# CONFIG_FONT_PEARL_8x8 is not set
# CONFIG_FONT_ACORN_8x8 is not set
I use 1024x768 also. Here is the video section of my 2.4.17 kernel config. It won't be any different. See if anything might have gotten passed over.
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