vesafb (was Re: [plug] Framebuffer problem)

[Peter Wright]

Discussing vga16fb....

On Mon, May 29, 2000 at 03:34:11PM +0800, Peter Wright wrote:
> On Mon, May 29, 2000 at 03:19:30PM +0800, Matt Kemner wrote:
[ snip ]
> > I get the same messages from a system running vga16fb on a newish
> > (but still crappy) S3 based AGP card.
> 
> Oh well, I guess it's worth a try. If _that_ doesn't work, then I
> know something's seriously wrong. :)

Well, something's seriously wrong.... :-)

No, well, not completely.... the vga16fb was successfully loaded and
shows up in the dmesg output:

vga16fb: initializing
vga16fb: mapped to 0xc00a0000
fbcon_setup: No support for fontwidth 8
fbcon_setup: type 4 (aux 0, depth 4) not supported
Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 80x30
fb0: VGA16 VGA frame buffer device
Detected PS/2 Mouse Port.

[ ... ]

VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly.
Freeing unused kernel memory: 56k freed
fbcon_setup: No support for fontwidth 8
fbcon_setup: type 4 (aux 0, depth 4) not supported
fbcon_setup: No support for fontwidth 8
fbcon_setup: type 4 (aux 0, depth 4) not supported
fbcon_setup: No support for fontwidth 8

[ same fbcon_setup error message several more times ] 


I had to get this info by telnetting into the machine, as the display
went to shit (a technical term) almost immediately after the VGA ask
prompt.

However, I was able to run fbset from my telnet session:

yoda:~# fbset 

mode "640x480-59"
    # D: 25.176 MHz, H: 31.469 kHz, V: 59.489 Hz
    geometry 640 480 640 480 4
    timings 39721 48 16 39 8 96 2
    rgba 6/0,6/0,6/0,0/0
endmode


... so at least that's something.

I'm not sure what to try next. :(

> >  - Matt
> 
> Pete.

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