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Oneiric
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 Posted: Sat Jun 15, 2002 6:49 am Post subject: How do I configure my framebuffer? |
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Well, I have a frambuffer going and it is making the font size on the command line outside of X way too big. I went to a documentation site and it said to get kbd, so I did. Now I don't know how to use kbd or atleast configure it. There don't seem to be any files to configure. Well it would be great if someone could help me out. Oh and also on changing resolution.
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sonicwave
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What framebuffer are you using?
If its the standard kernel built-in framebuffer, you can set your resolution settings using the vga kernel switch in lilo or grub.
I.e. vga=371 for example.. i think this would put you 1024x768x16, and fonts should be ok.. at least that was all i did  |
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leej
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| Posted: Sat Jun 15, 2002 11:16 am Post subject: |
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| sonicwave wrote: |
I.e. vga=371 for example.. i think this would put you 1024x768x16 |
No! That will cause problems! You mean, vga=317 
Docs for your framebuffer device are located here:
/usr/src/linux/Documentation/fb
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640x480 800x600 1024x768 1280x1024
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256 | 0x301 0x303 0x305 0x307
32k | 0x310 0x313 0x316 0x319
64k | 0x311 0x314 0x317 0x31A
16M | 0x312 0x315 0x318 0x31B
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The formatting no doubt just screwed up due to forum limitations. |
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sonicwave
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| Posted: Sat Jun 15, 2002 11:35 am Post subject: |
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| leej wrote: | | sonicwave wrote: |
I.e. vga=371 for example.. i think this would put you 1024x768x16 |
No! That will cause problems! You mean, vga=317
Docs for your framebuffer device are located here:
/usr/src/linux/Documentation/fb
| vesafb.txt wrote: |
640x480 800x600 1024x768 1280x1024
----+-------------------------------------
256 | 0x301 0x303 0x305 0x307
32k | 0x310 0x313 0x316 0x319
64k | 0x311 0x314 0x317 0x31A
16M | 0x312 0x315 0x318 0x31B
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The formatting no doubt just screwed up due to forum limitations. |
whoops your right 
Also, depending on your gfx chip you should check with your vendor. Sometimes there guys provide a framebuffer/x drivers.. |
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leej
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| Posted: Sat Jun 15, 2002 11:44 am Post subject: |
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| sonicwave wrote: |
Also, depending on your gfx chip you should check with your vendor. Sometimes there guys provide a framebuffer/x drivers.. |
There is where I feel compelled to moan about the lack of a vendor specific framebuffer for NVidia GEForce cards. A shame considering they're so well supported under Linux in every other area (NVidias own Kernel drivers and NvAGP Gart, GLX, etc) . |
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Tuxisuau
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| Posted: Sat Jun 15, 2002 3:25 pm Post subject: love |
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emerge console-tools console-data
man consolechars
vi /etc/rc.conf
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