Re: [Sheflug] Framebuffer problem

[James Rogers <phb01jdr [at] xxxxxxxxxx>]

Peter Collier wrote:
> On Monday 12 December 2005 23:36, Wonkey Donkey wrote:
>
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I'm a little stuck right now with a framebuffer problem, and try as I
> > might, I can't get it to work.
> >
> > The hardware is:
> >
> > XPS Gen2 Laptop (M170)
> > Geforce 7800 GTX Mobile
> > Intel 915 chipset
> > 2.6.14 kernel
> > Linux version : Gentoo 2005.1
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> I could be talking rubbish here but isn't vesafb used as a fallback when 
> you don't have correct drivers installed for the video card? I don't 
> think you can control the video display by putting the settings wanted 
> in grub. You may have to download the nvida drivers for your card to 
> display properly. My experience of setting up the video resolution is 
> using sax in suse, xconfigurator in redhat etc. Not sure what gentoo 
> uses.
>
> Peter C
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The vesa-tng is framebuffer(nothing to do with X), there is a fallback 
for X called vesa.
Is there not a nvidia framebuffer module? I remember seeing one sometime 
ago, not sure if it is depreciated now.
My experience is that framebuffer and nvidia kernel do not play nicely, 
poor performance & stability issues.

Ah, google turns up a pretty good summary with some notes on the 915 
http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_fbsplash
Looks like non-standard resolutions need special mode lines

James
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