Hi there!

Currently I'm trying to get gentoo working on my new Sony Vaio VGN FS315H.

Does anyone know the correct grub vga option for 1280x800 WXGA?

thx a lot!
Marko

Does not exist, the best you can do is 1024x768 since 1280x1024 is to large for your display.

vga=773 or 790 or 791 or 792

which are 256 or 32k or 64k or 16m colors respectfully.

I somehow can't get this thing running properly.

I'm using the nvidia framebuffer option and actually there is a framebuffer working but the whole screen is "shifted" about half of the screenwidth to the right.
So any text does not start on the left side of the display but rather in the middle
And everything that goes 'beyond' the right end of the screen appears on the left side...
So this is kinda how it looks like:
I really hope someone has a clue about what I could try to fix this, cause the 'non'framebuffer console is not really comfortable to work with

thx a lot!
marko

Please learn the difference between 'the grub vga boot option' and the GUI interface, they are different. Linux is quite happy to work without a GUI interface, many server and other systems run years without using a GUI interface.

See 'man xvidtune' minus the single quotemarks for help with the GUI interface.

Hm, maybe I wasn't expressing myself clearly or I really do understand something wrong.
I do not have any kind of X-Server and/or Window-/Desktopmanager installed.
So my problem occures directly during (and after) the booting process in what I would call console-environment rather than GUI althoug I'm trying to get some graphics and especially a higher resolution working here.
Currently I'm having either the standard resoltion what means I can only display a couple of rows on the screen with 'big' letters or I'm getting a higher resolution with at least twice as many rows but starting in the middle of the screen.
So what I'm trying to get is like during the gentoo installation where you have a high resolution and even some graphics.

I'm sorry if I wasn't describing the problem properly (haven't spoken or written English for quite some time ).

Thank you & merry xmas
marko

OK, I think I understand try changing or adding the vga=XXX to vga=ask in the kernel line then select one of the choices listed, sample below;

kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.15-rc7 ro root=LABEL=/ quiet vga=ask

Hi!

Thanks for the hint, unfortunately it didn't solve my problem but it got me one step further.
I realized that at the very beginning of the boot sequence (< 1sec) the framebuffer seems to work properly but then somehow it changes. So I was going through the dmesg log and this is what I found:

[...]
Console: color VGA+ 80x50 <-- 80x50 is what I chose with vga=ask
[...]
nvidiafb: nVidia device/chipset 10DE0168
nvidiafb: CRTC0 not found
nvidiafb: CRTC1 found
nvidiafb: CRTC 0 is currently programmed for DFP
nvidiafb: Using DFP on CRTC 0
Panel size is 1280 x 800
nvidiafb: MTRR set to ON
fbcvt: 1280x800@60: CVT Name - 1.024MA-R
Console: switching to colour framebuffer device 160x50
nvidiafb: PCI nVidia NV16 framebuffer (32MB @ 0xC0000000)
[...]


I also realized that the first line is always displayed correctly starting in the upper left corner of the display - I'm not sure if that changed since yesterday or if it was already there

This is what i chose on kernel configuration:
Is it possible that the nvidia framebuffer does not get along with the 1280x800 display?
What appears strange to me is that the first line is displayed completly correct and only the following lines start at the center of the screen.
Actually it isn't really the center but even a little more to the right and there is some 'overlapping' of 4 characters like this:
mobimobile ~ $ uname -s
LinuLinux
mobimobile ~ $
And another 4 characters are 'lost' between the right side of the screen and before it appears again on the left side:
So the sequence 'esti' would not be visible.

I really hope someone has an idea about how to fix this.

thank you & bye
marko

Well, I have a different card then yours, you might want to build the nVidia framebuffer support as a module instead. You might want to read;

http://diylinuxpvr.blogspot.com/2005...ia-driver.html

Well, I couldn't get the nvidiafb running, but I figured out how to make vesafb-tng work with my hardware.

Thanks again for your help!
cu
Marko

...aehm, right - much late.

Ever i see something like this i will advice to have a look at the svgatextmode thing i used with debian.

As i remember it doesn't need fb, but works the same on console texting.