"Bill Layer" <blayer at qwest.net> wrote: > > I don't get this. I have a box here (ok, it's a Compaq, but we don't need > to get into that) that simply refuses to run a vesa_fb console. The > onboard video is Cirrus Logic 5436, which is known to be VESA compliant > and is know to work with the vesa_fb driver. I've also tried a couple > other cards, including an AT Mach64 and S3 ViRGE, none of them will work. I don't know about the other cards, but the S3 ViRGE card I had only supported VESA 1.2, while VESA 2.0 support is required if you want to use the kernel framebuffer. (or maybe it was 1.0/1.2.. I forget) If you really want things to work, you can boot DOS first, load a VESA driver for the card, and then use loadlin to boot Linux, and have it work. -- _ _ _ _ _ ___ _ _ _ ___ _ _ __ It's a small world, but I / \/ \(_)| ' // ._\ / - \(_)/ ./| ' /(__ wouldn't want to have to \_||_/|_||_|_\\___/ \_-_/|_|\__\|_|_\ __) paint it. [ Mike Hicks | http://umn.edu/~hick0088/ | mailto:hick0088 at tc.umn.edu ] -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://shadowknight.real-time.com/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20020102/30a397dc/attachment.pgp