From: Hari S. <hps...@go...> - 2006-10-13 12:53:23
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I have a new machine with an nVidia NV18GL [Quadro FX 550] card in it. I have compiled both vesafb-tng and nvidia framebuffer support in to the kernel and tried various things without success. I find the whole framebuffer device thing a bit weird in practice, a bit hit-and-miss, sometimes I get it and sometimes I don't. I have tried various lines in my grub menu.lst such as kernel (hd0,2)/boot/kernel-2.6.17-gentoo-r8 root=/dev/sda3 video=vesafb:mtrr:3,ywrap,1024x768-32@85 which was taken from the usually excellent gentoo handbook and kernel (hd0,2)/boot/kernel-2.6.17-gentoo-r8 root=/dev/sda3 video=nvidiafb vga=0x318 but neither seem to work. I just get an error immediately on boot saying the mode wasn't recognised or something and it gives me a list of modes to choose from, all of which end up in a normal looking terminal without the nice framebuffer screen. I am a little confused by the lack of clear documentation on this. Could somebody point me in the right direction? -- Hari Sekhon |