Re: who sets boot_params[].screen_info.orig_video_isVGA?

From: gl
Date: Tue Sep 06 2005 - 02:34:03 EST


On Mon, 5 Sep 2005, Matthew Garrett wrote:

Yup. You probably want to take a look at Documentation/fb/vesafb.txt -
the modes are the same.

Great, thanks! I tried VESA 0x111 (Linux 0x311) - it is also what is used by xfree86 vesa driver, after I've followed the suggestion from Tony (cc'ed and quoted below) and tried X with vesa. The kernel boots, intelfb driver doesn't exit, I can even start X over fb and it runs! But:

1) both screens - LCD and CRT bocome black as soon as intelfb takes over and stay that way also under X

2) kernel logs fill with

intelfb: the cursor was killed - restore it !!
intelfb: size 8, 16 pos 0, 464

Buggy video BIOS?...

On Tue, 6 Sep 2005, Antonino A. Daplas wrote:

One good method is to use the "vesa" driver of Xorg/Xfree86. Check
/var/log/X*.log and it should have a nice list of vesa mode id's that
are supported.

Then add 0x200 to any of them and use it in your vga= parameter.

Thanks
Guennadi
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Guennadi Liakhovetski, Ph.D.
DSA Daten- und Systemtechnik GmbH
Pascalstr. 28
D-52076 Aachen
Germany
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