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From: Valmor de Almeida <val.gentoo@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] intelfb usage in grub
Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2009 23:14:14
Message-Id: 49ED01B8.3030506@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] intelfb usage in grub by Tom
1 Tom wrote:
2
3 > kernel ... video=vesafb:mtrr:3,ywrap vga=795
4 > That gives me 1280x1024. I don't know at what refreshrate though...
5
6 There should be a line in your /var/log/messages file that shows the
7 refresh rate; at least intelfb does show that; not sure vesafb does the
8 same.
9
10 >
11 > those options, what do they do? are they also valid for vesafb?
12 >
13
14 you can read in your linux kernel doc directory
15
16 /usr/src/linux/Documentation/fb/vesafb.txt
17
18 or search for vesafb.txt.
19
20 --
21 Valmor