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Re: [Sheflug] Kernel Frame Buffer and Debian

On 2004.01.14 21:57, Mr. Adam ALLEN wrote:

small square) or extended fonts.... As I remember there was an option in
BIOS for the default mode to use.
I had a look in the BIOS, not sure what I touched, but it was then full screen, though still at the same resolution.

Wandering round the net though I realised it maybe to do with agpgart. So I modprobed that and atyfb and I think I'm almost there. dmesg reports:

agpgart: Maximum main memory to use for agp memory: 149M
agpgart: Detected Intel 440BX chipset
agpgart: AGP aperture is 64M @ 0xe0000000
atyfb: using auxiliary register aperture
atyfb: 3D RAGE Mobility (PCI) [0x4c4d rev 0x64] 4M WRAM, 29.498928 MHz XTAL, 230 MHz PLL, 50 Mhz MCLK
Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 80x30
fb0: ATY Mach64 frame buffer device on PCI

which looks good apart from claiming it's a pci card, which worries me. anyway my consoles are now mostly white with only a small area visible and the vsync is buggered, but I can access all the modes I want. If I use vga16fb It's great, but I can't get into the higher modes vesafb doesn't want to play at all.

Should it report it as an AGP card, if so any ideas as to what to change

Simon
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