From: Alix Marchandise-F. <al...@ci...> - 2002-02-07 22:44:26
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Hello, I hope this is the right place to ask this question, if not can you please direct me to the appropriate newsgroup/mailing-list? I am trying to use the rivafb driver with an nvidia Geforce 2MX card. I have a 2.4.16 kernel which I recompiled with rivafb. When I boot my machine, I see the penguin which goes away after a while. I don't think I am really using the framebuffer driver since with other framebuffer drivers and cards the penguin stayed there and the font got smaller. Also, nano-x, when compiled with the framebuffer setting doesn't run (but it runs fine when built and run with X11). In the instructions for the vesafb driver, there are lines to add in lilo.conf, I don't know what these are for rivafb. So my questions are: 1) How can I know that I am using rivafb? 2) What needs to go in lilo.conf when using rivafb? 3) I couldn't find any real info on rivafb, where would it be? Thank you very much -alix |
From: Geert U. <ge...@li...> - 2002-02-08 08:52:58
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On Thu, 7 Feb 2002, Alix Marchandise-Franquet wrote: > I hope this is the right place to ask this question, if not can you please > direct me to the appropriate newsgroup/mailing-list? > > I am trying to use the rivafb driver with an nvidia Geforce 2MX card. > I have a 2.4.16 kernel which I recompiled with rivafb. > When I boot my machine, I see the penguin which goes away after a while. If you see the penguin, you're using a frame buffer device. > I don't think I am really using the framebuffer driver since with other > framebuffer drivers and cards the penguin stayed there and the font got > smaller. Also, nano-x, when compiled with the framebuffer setting > doesn't run (but it runs fine when built and run with X11). > > In the instructions for the vesafb driver, there are lines to add in > lilo.conf, I don't know what these are for rivafb. > > So my questions are: > 1) How can I know that I am using rivafb? cat /proc/fb > 2) What needs to go in lilo.conf when using rivafb? I guess nothing (autoprobing), unless you want to use a different video mode than the default. > 3) I couldn't find any real info on rivafb, where would it be? Rivafb uses the standard video mode database, so please read linux/Documentation/fb/modedb.txt. Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- ge...@li... In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that. -- Linus Torvalds |
From: Jurriaan on A. <thu...@xs...> - 2002-02-16 19:38:24
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On Thu, Feb 07, 2002 at 02:46:36PM -0800, Alix Marchandise-Franquet wrote: > Hello, > > I hope this is the right place to ask this question, if not can you please > direct me to the appropriate newsgroup/mailing-list? > > I am trying to use the rivafb driver with an nvidia Geforce 2MX card. > I have a 2.4.16 kernel which I recompiled with rivafb. > When I boot my machine, I see the penguin which goes away after a while. > I don't think I am really using the framebuffer driver since with other > framebuffer drivers and cards the penguin stayed there and the font got > smaller. Also, nano-x, when compiled with the framebuffer setting > doesn't run (but it runs fine when built and run with X11). > > In the instructions for the vesafb driver, there are lines to add in > lilo.conf, I don't know what these are for rivafb. > > So my questions are: > 1) How can I know that I am using rivafb? If you type dmesg | less is there something like: fb: Voodoo5 memory = 65536K Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 133x54 fb0: 3Dfx Voodoo5 frame buffer device pty: 256 Unix98 ptys configured in there ? > 2) What needs to go in lilo.conf when using rivafb? my /etc/aboot.conf contains: 1:1/boot/vmlinux-2.4.18pre8.gz ro root=/dev/sda1 video=tdfx:1600x1200-16@85,nohwcursor 2:1/boot/vmlinux-2.4.17pre1.gz ro root=/dev/sda1 video=tdfx:1024x768-16@75 but you'll need another video= argument. > 3) I couldn't find any real info on rivafb, where would it be? > If all else fails (meaning nothing on google / google groups), read the source. Good luck, Jurriaan -- 'Has eighteen letters' does. GNU/Linux 2.4.18p7-rmap12a on Debian/Alpha 988 bogomips load:0.09 0.10 0.17 |