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On Tuesday 22 September 2009 12:33:59 Willie Wong wrote: |
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> Is the framebuffer working? I mean, when you boot with the parameters |
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> listed up there, are you stuck in 80x25 or are you in a framebuffer |
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> mode that you don't like? |
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No, the fram buffer is not active - I just get 80x25, or some others if I |
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pass a vga= parameter to the kernel. |
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> If you are stuck in 80x25 text-mode, the intelfb kernel documentation |
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> suggests you try setting the vga mode, see the file vesafb.txt in your |
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> kernel documentation directories for details. (The problem is that the |
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> vesafb modes do not include one that is the native resolution for the |
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> 16:9 aspect ratio displays; on LCDs this will make the text look |
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> crappy). |
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And I haven't been able to get the fesa fb to work either. |
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Incidentally, if I have both intelfb and vesafb compiled in (*), vesafb |
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takes over in spite of have intelfb specified via grub. Not what I |
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expected. |
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> If the framebuffer is working, maybe you just want to play with the |
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> screen resolution? I think that 1024x600 is correct for the 1000 |
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> series though. Do you just want a certain number of rows and columns |
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> of text on your console? That I think is determined by the FONTS |
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> symbol, the configuration should be somewhere around where you enabled |
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> framebuffer support. Changing the font size should also change the |
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> number of rows and columns. |
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1024x600 is correct, I'm sure of it. Fiddling with the fonts may help but |
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I'd rather get the underlying screen resolution right first if I can. |
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> On yres of 600, if you want something close to 60 lines, then you may |
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> want to try using the 8x8 VGA font. The standard 8x16 fonts will |
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> provide 30 someodd lines. |
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Thanks for the ideas. |
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* Thanks also to Daniel; I'd overlooked gentoo-wiki, where there seems to be |
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lots of good advice. I'll have a go at that later. |
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Rgds |
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Peter |