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> Did you try just running "fbset -a 1024x768-76" on |
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> the command |
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> line, after bootup? If this works (and it just |
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Well, well, well. I've tried this command before |
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--shoulda mentioned it. What happened was that the |
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screen would try to change itself but drop back into |
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default(?) mode with a lot of staticky looking stuff |
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all over the screen. |
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But, this time, boom! Now everything is scrunched into |
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the upper left hand corner of the screen. I've maxed |
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out the settings in the screen control panel on the |
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monitor itself and managed to move the text to a band |
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down the center of the screen with margins of about |
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two inches. Now instead of no margins, they're too |
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big. |
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I tried adjusting the command but whatever I enter it |
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replies; "Unknown video mode '800x600-60'" |
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for example. or "Unknown video mode '1024x768-60'". |
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But the display is otherwise just like with the boot |
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CD. |
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And the bare fbset command reveals the new mode. |
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Another thing: doesn't the -a switch set (a)ll the |
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consoles? Not in this instance. |
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Now for my finale, hot off the hard drive there is: |
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localhost ~ # fbset -fb /dev/fb0 |
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mode "1024x768-76" |
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# D: 78.653 MHz, H: 59.949 kHz, V: 75.694 Hz |
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geometry 1024 768 1024 768 16 |
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timings 12714 128 32 16 4 128 4 |
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accel true |
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rgba 5/10,5/5,5/0,0/0 |
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endmode |
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localhost ~ # fbset -fb /dev/fb1 |
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mode "1280x1024-60" |
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# D: 108.944 MHz, H: 63.599 kHz, V: 59.999 Hz |
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geometry 1280 1024 1280 1024 32 |
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timings 9179 217 79 32 1 137 3 |
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vsync high |
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rgba 8/16,8/8,8/0,0/0 |
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endmode |
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If I try using the last mode the screen goes blank for |
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about a solid minute then reverts back to the first. |
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What's even more confusing is that in the .config I |
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have |
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CONFIG_FB_VESA_DEFAULT_MODE="1280x1024-32@60". |
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Why doesn't it try that since now my command line has |
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just "video=vesafb" with *no* parameters at all? And |
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no complaints in dmesg. |
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mw |
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