Hi, I just got a Dell Optiplex GX110 with the integrated 810 chipset graphics driver. I simply want a good framebuffer running in console at maybe 800x600. I don't intend to use X much, but I may sometimes.
I have tried everything that I know how to get this working, and I did get the driver loaded and working in 640x480 mode. The problem is, even if I use the kernel append line in LILO specified in the documentation, it is just ignored. I still get the 640x480 console.
If I try fbset -xres xxx, it works fine, but it doesn't scale the yres to match. I have tried both with the "use VESA Generalized Timing Formula" kernel option enabled and disabled. If I try fbset -yres xxx, it fails with "ioctl FBIOPUT_VSCREENINFO: Invalid argument".
Any ideas what I may be doing wrong here? I have looked through all the documentation and searched the lists and forums for any clues, but nothing seems to help.
Thanks
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Hi, I just got a Dell Optiplex GX110 with the integrated 810 chipset graphics driver. I simply want a good framebuffer running in console at maybe 800x600. I don't intend to use X much, but I may sometimes.
I have tried everything that I know how to get this working, and I did get the driver loaded and working in 640x480 mode. The problem is, even if I use the kernel append line in LILO specified in the documentation, it is just ignored. I still get the 640x480 console.
If I try fbset -xres xxx, it works fine, but it doesn't scale the yres to match. I have tried both with the "use VESA Generalized Timing Formula" kernel option enabled and disabled. If I try fbset -yres xxx, it fails with "ioctl FBIOPUT_VSCREENINFO: Invalid argument".
Any ideas what I may be doing wrong here? I have looked through all the documentation and searched the lists and forums for any clues, but nothing seems to help.
Thanks
To clarify about fbset:
I can say fbset -xres 1240, then my resolution is 1240x480. I cannot find a way to change the yres.
Here is my fbset --info
mode "640x480-60"
# D: 24.000 MHz, H: 30.000 kHz, V: 60.242 Hz
geometry 640 480 1024 4096 8
timings 41666 80 16 14 1 64 3
rgba 8/0,8/0,8/0,0/0
endmode
Frame buffer device information:
Name : I810
Address : 0xf9000000
Size : 4194304
Type : PACKED PIXELS
Visual : PSEUDOCOLOR
XPanStep : 8
YPanStep : 1
YWrapStep : 0
LineLength : 1024
MMIO Address: 0xff000000
MMIO Size : 524288
Accelerator : Unknown (39)
Include hsync1, hsync2, vsync1 and vsync2 in your kernel boot options.
Tony