vesafb-tng not working: solved

FuriousGeorge · Apprentice Joined: 03 Mar 2005 Posts: 160

in the past, enabling vesa-tng in the kernel made my console fb just work automagically

this time i wasnt as fortunate

here is what dmseg says

i92guboj · Posted: Mon Apr 11, 2005 12:57 am Post subject:

Try adding something like 'video=vesafb:ywrap,mtrr,1024x768-24@85' to your kernel parameters.

Sith_Happens · Posted: Mon Apr 11, 2005 1:02 am Post subject:

1024x768@87? What kind of display is that?
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i92guboj · Posted: Mon Apr 11, 2005 1:28 am Post subject:

Sith_Happens · Posted: Mon Apr 11, 2005 1:40 am Post subject:

FuriousGeorge · Apprentice Joined: 03 Mar 2005 Posts: 160

when i first saw that about horizontal resolution i immediately thought that it should be a lowercase 'x' in the kernel config. i changed that and copied over the kernel and was stumped when that didnt fix it.

i was about to try your suggestion of addidng the line to grub.conf, even though it was bothering me that i knew i shouldnt have to do that, when i noticed that my boot partition wasnt being automagically mounted, and as such i never replaced the original kernel where it had the capital 'X'. myfstab is ok so i cant figure out why, but at least it works now, ill leave the booting thing for tomarrow

my monitor is an A72f from viewsonic. it is kinda old, but i'm a big fan of image (nice flat screen). its max ers @ 1280x1024 is only 60hz, but its a whopping 87 hz @ 1024x768 according to the specs viewsonic publishes

i92guboj · Posted: Mon Apr 11, 2005 2:11 am Post subject:

Glad you found the problem. Well, bout the refresh, i just mentioned that is strange, meaning it is not a tipical one, but it is not imposible, of course, so if the manufacturer says that that's the rate then you are ok to go with it.