Re: VESA VGA Frame Buffer

Sid Boyce (szb50@amdahl.com)
Tue, 28 Jul 1998 01:19:56 +0000


Martin Mares wrote:
No, you have selected a _text_ mode, so the normal text mode driver got used.

Anyway, it seems your VGA doesn't support linear frame buffer :(
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Sid Boyce writes:
Possibly wrong version, these are the reports I have for the Stealth 3D
3000.........
[barrabas:/usr/src]# fbset -i

mode "name"
# H: 20.703 kHz, V: 52.546 Hz
geometry 1056 344 1056 992 4
timings 39722 40 24 39 9 96 2
endmode

Frame buffer device information:
Name : `VGA+'
Address : 0xb8000
Size : 32768
Type : CGA/EGA/VGA Color text
Visual : PSEUDOCOLOR
XPanStep : 0
YPanStep : 8
YWrapStep : 0
LineLength : 264
Acceleration: None
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On Xfree86
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(--) S3V: PCI: ViRGE/VX rev 2, Linear FB @ 0xec000000
(--) S3V: chipset: ViRGE/VX rev. 2
(--) S3V: chipset driver: s3_ViRGE
(--) S3V: videoram: 4096k
(--) S3V: Ramdac type: s3_trio64
(--) S3V: Ramdac speed: 220 MHz (135 MHz for 32 bpp)
(--) S3V: Using Trio32/64 programmable clock (MCLK 54.886 MHz)
(--) S3V: Maximum allowed dot-clock: 135.000 MHz
Regards

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