First of all, hello everyone since this is my first thread!

I'm running Slackware 10.0 with the default kernel 2.4.26. My computer is a laptop equipped with an Intel i830m.

My problem is that I can't use the Itel framebuffer (which is compiled as a module in the kernel) and I'm compelled to use the VESA one (which is built in the kernel). On some page on the internet (I don't remember where now) I found that I have to pass to lilo the following extra parameter

video=i810fb

(the document I found was about Intel i810) after the usual

vga=773

Actually the framebuffer is always vesa as it can be see typing

cat /proc/fb

which returns as output "0 VESA VGA"


Thank you in advance for your help!

Maybe you should try to use append in lilo.conf, like :
append="video=i810fb"

(put the line after kernel and vga settings)

But as you have it as module, I doubt that it will loaded at this boot time

Hello!

Actually, I think the issue is that the intel framebuffer support is compiled as a module instead of being built in the kernel. What seems strange is that I get no error messages with the "video=..." option.

Do you think I need am initial ram disk? I could try this way (before rebuild the kernel...)

I built the new kernel 2.4.29 without VGA and VESA framebuffer and with Intel i830M framebuffer (built-in, not as a module). It now works...

Bye!