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On Mon, Jun 04, 2007 at 07:58:45PM -0700, maxim wexler wrote: |
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> Geert Uytterhoeven, who's listed as the author at the |
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> end of man fbset, pointed out that since I only have |
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> one video card, I only need one framebuffer, whereas I |
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> had two: ATI and VESA. So I reconfig'd w/o VESA and |
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> removed the video=vesafb... from the kernel line in |
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> grub.conf. |
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> Then I put fbset -a 1024x768-76 in local.start and |
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> rebooted. The framebuffer opens up beautifully. |
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Excellent :) Always helps to ask someone who known what they're |
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talking about |
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> I think I should put it in /etc/inittab but where? |
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> Does it matter? Or maybe it should be |
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> video=aty128fb...on the kernel line. Still some |
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> tweaking to do. But I think most of the heavy lifting |
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> is over. |
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I would have thought video=aty128fb:1024x768@76 in grub.conf should |
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do it. Have a look at /usr/src/linux/Documentation/fb/aty128fb.txt |
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for a few other options. |
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I wouldn't mess around with inittab if you can possibly help it. |
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Glad to hear it's mostly working, |
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-Nick |
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