[Mactel-linux-users] uvesafb on MacBook?

[mike d. <fl...@po...>]

Hi there,

I've become quite fed up with the terrible console resolution I get on
my MacBook2,1 and thought it was time to give framebuffer drivers
another go.

Looks like uvesafb [1] is the standard nowadays, but I haven't been able
to make it work. I have installed the daemon part (v86d, from the Debian
package), and tried to modprobe the module with various resolutions as
an option, such as:

  modprobe uvesafb mode_option=1280x800

Unfortunately, I always get the following output, and no success: 

  uvesafb: Intel Corporation, Intel(r) 82945GM Chipset Family Graphics
 	   Controller, Hardware Version 0.0, OEM: Intel(r) 82945GM Chipset
	   Family Graphics Chip Accelerated VGA BIOS, VBE v3.0
  uvesafb: VBIOS/hardware supports DDC2 transfers
  uvesafb: monitor limits: vf = 60 Hz, hf = 49 kHz, clk = 71 MHz
  uvesafb: scrolling: redraw
  uvesafb: abort, cannot ioremap 0x600000 bytes of video memory at 0x40000000
  uvesafb: probe of uvesafb.0 failed with error -5

Can anyone share a resolution that works, or give hints as to which FB
driver to try and how?

Thanks,

[1] http://dev.gentoo.org/~spock/projects/uvesafb/

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mike dentifrice <fl...@po...>