Re: Frame Buffer on Alpha(was xconfig & menuconfig really broken?)

[Nikolaos Ntarmos <darmnik dialup isc tuc gr>]

On Sun, 30 May 1999, Brian Kurotsuchi wrote:

>> > I'm having trouble booting any kernels I make.  I get the dashed line and the
>> > "Linux version" line that it prints as it begins to boot, which appears at the
>> > bottom of the screen.  Then it stops and nothing else happens.

This is due to the way frame buffers detect the underlying hardware (they don't
on Alphas). You must define what graphics card you have and the resolution at
which you want to run the frame buffers. For example , on an SX with a Matrox
video card , the boot line should be something like : boot xdx:/vmlinux.gz
root=... video=matrox:vesa:<video mode> , where video mode is one of :
2,3,7 for 640*400 , or 0x10c (or 0x1c0 , I always forget this one) for the next
higher resolution. All modes are listed in the kernel documentation , under
Documentation/fb/ . You should use the text mode parameters and not the video
mode ones.

Hope I helped.
Bye,Nick.




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