Re: Re[3]: funny colors with 2.1.132 (and 2.2.0-pre3)

[geerten kuiper <geerten bart nl>]

Peter,

I've tried all combinations of VGA console and FB console activated.
- neither: boot hangs
- just fb: uses "dummy console": text screens just show the final output
from Milo (X is OK.)
- vga or both: text screen is black during boot, brown-on-blue when
switching back after X started (X itself is allright.)

I moved on to 2.2.0-pre3: results are the same, except it's now
grey-on-black, rather than brown-on-blue (a slight improvement, but mc
colors are even wilder now.)

Though the helptext for FBconsole states that it is needed for non-intel,
for my situation it doesn't seem to do anything useful.



Here's my graphics card: (the chip itself says Trio64V+ IIRC)
  Bus  0, device   5, function  0:
    VGA compatible controller: S3 Inc. Trio32/Trio64 (rev 84).
      Medium devsel.  IRQ 18.  
      Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0x14000000.
Board is PC164, 366 MHz


At 15:22 28/12/98 -0500, you wrote:
>I just gave it a go and it hung at jumping to linux kernel. I'm grabing 
>egcs 1.1.1 from rawhide now and recomple it with that. I'm using a 
>2.1.130 kernel right now though it doesn't have sound...
>


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