[Sheflug] Kernel Frame Buffer and Debian

[Simon Brown <simon [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

All of this talk of fancy boot screens from the Gentoo users is making me  
jealous, so can the debian gurus on the list help me out here.

I have a Fujitsu siemens laptop with a 1024x768 TFT display and a ATI  
MACH64 mobility based graphic card. All I want is for the consoles to fill  
the screen instead of occupying what is perhaps 640x480 in the middle.

I'm using the official 2.4.20-1-686 (security issues, what security  
issues:-) kernel. I thought it would be as simple as adding atyfb to my  
modules list and appending video=atyfb:mode:1024x768 to lilo. No such luck  
loading atyfb causes everything to go to pot console display wise. I then  
tried vesafb thinking it would be the default catchall driver. It can't  
find the device:
init_module: No such device or address

any clues greatly appreciated.


Simon.

P.S. for any ueber gurus out there who know how to get the text to line up  
with the debianlilo.bmp lilo graphic, hints on that would also be  
appreciated.
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