Vesafb-tng and video settings

DocNick · 09-19-2005, 03:14 AM

Hope this is the best forum for this question...

I've just finished putting a new Gentoo system together from Stage 1 (that was fun! :) and have a question about using a framebuffer console.

When I configured the kernel (manually, not using genkernel), one of the device drivers I enabled was vesafb-tng. I noticed in there is a pre-set config string of "640x480@60", but did not change it. Later in my grub.conf file, I added the kernel option "video=vesafb:mtrr,ywrap,1024x768-32@75".

My problem is that the kernel seems to be using the 640x480 string in menuconfig and not paying attention to my video kernel option. How can I change this? Do I need to recompile the kernel using a blank config string for vesafb-tng?

Thanks!

comprookie2000 · 09-19-2005, 09:00 PM

Try video=vesafb:ywrap,pmipal,1024x768-24@85

DocNick · 09-19-2005, 10:46 PM

Hmm, didn't seem to make a difference. Still looks like it's about 800x600.

Any other ideas?

Thanks.

comprookie2000 · 09-20-2005, 04:05 AM

Post
dmesg | grep vesa

DocNick · 09-26-2005, 01:28 AM

Sorry I was slow getting back. Here's what you asked for:

Code:

# dmesg | grep vesa
Kernel command line: root=/dev/hda3 video=vesafb:ywrap,pmipal,1024x768-24@75
vesafb: ATI Technologies Inc., R100, 01.00 (OEM: ATI RADEON VE)
vesafb: VBE version: 2.0
vesafb: protected mode interface info at c000:54a2
vesafb: pmi: set display start = c00c5536, set palette = c00c5582
vesafb: pmi: ports = d810 d816 d854 d838 d83c d85c d800 d804 d8b0 d8b2 d8b4
vesafb: monitor limits: vf = 0 Hz, hf = 0 kHz, clk = 0 MHz
vesafb: scrolling: ywrap using protected mode interface, yres_virtual=1536
vesafb: cannot reserve video memory at 0xe8000000
vesafb: framebuffer at 0xe8000000, mapped to 0xe1a00000, using 4608k, total 65536k

Thanks again.

comprookie2000 · 09-26-2005, 04:24 PM

See if this helps;
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t...t-vesatng.html
Let me know what happens ...