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 Posted: Sat Jan 10, 2004 6:58 pm Post subject: Ibm 701c and framebuffer trouble |
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Hello there.
First off, this is not specificly gentoo related, however this is the best place to get support 
I have slackware 9.1 installed on it, as it's a 75Mhz and i don't have 8 weeks to compile, nor the harddisk space
I have an IBM 701c 'Butterfly' laptop.
It uses the Chips And Tech CT65545 chipset, and it is capable of doing 640x480@256 colors on the screen. And 1024x768 if i hook up an external monitor.
Now, my trouble is that I can not for the love of god get the framebuffer to work.
I use lilo as my bootloader, and i have this in it:
| Code: | boot = /dev/hda
prompt
timeout = 05
image = /boot/vmlinuz
root = /dev/hda2
label = hda2
vga = normal # I can put 0x301 (640x480@256) here, but it'll complain about an unknown mode, and prompts me to select another mode
append="video=vesa:ywrap,mtrr"
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However, when i boot with whatever videomode i select (a couple of new ones appear if i choose to scan), the framebuffer does not get started, however if i chose 132x50 as the videomode, the text goes over the edge of the screen.
Now, I'm pretty sure the grafics card is vesa2.0 compliant (See here for the spreadsheet of the laptop, it says VL-bus 2.0 local bus). So that shouldn't be the problem.
The odd thing is, i had debian woody installed, and i saw the little penguin when i booted, so it has to be able to work. I just can't for the love of godmake it work. Argh.
My dmseg dosen't show anything relating to framebuffer or vesa, and it just prints that the console is 80x25 as normal.
Now. Does anyone have an idea as what could be the problem?
The slackware standard kernel does have support for framebuffer, so that shouldn't be the problem.
I hope one of you know Thanks in advance.
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| I'm just bumping this, it would be nice to get it working 80x25 just isn't satisfactory.. |
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