Re: [Linux-fbdev-users] Sony Vaio laptop with i815 video card

[James S. <jsi...@tr...>]

> I proceeded with the same command as before. "fbset -g 800 600 800 600 8"
> but then received "ioctl FBIOPUT_VSCREENINFO: Invalid argument".  I then
> noticed that I was in 4bpp.  Therefore I tried "fbset -g 800 600 800 600 4"
> and then this worked.  

Sounds like you went from the VESA framebuffer to the vga16 framebuffer.
Can you do a cat /proc/fb and tell us what you see.