Re: trying 2.6.8.1

[Helge H. <hel...@hi...>]

Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:

>Hi,
>
>Thanks Aivils!!!
>
>I tried vanilla linus WITHOUT the patch and that
>works.
>
>So I guess the patch is dead.
>
>Unrelated to Ruby but to 2.6.x: I used to get great
>fonts by setting the fonts to sun12x22 and vga=794.
>That font would beat SVGATextMode on 2.4.x.
>  
>
The framebuffer parameters changed in 2.6.  You can still
set resolution, color depth and frequencies, but the command
line parameters are different.  See the directory Documentation/fb
and the file for your card. 
The kernel parameters for a matrox framebuffer is like this:
video=matroxfb:vesa:0x1BB

One reason for this is support for machines with several
framebuffers - it is now possible to specify parameters for
each of them on the kernel command line. "vga=" didn't do that.

Helge Hafting