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reydan
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 Posted: Wed Nov 02, 2005 1:59 am Post subject: Anyone have gensplash working on a Dell Inspiron 1150... |
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My laptop uses an Intel 852 GMV chipset...(falls under the same driver for intel 855)
I'm running a 2.6.12-r6 kernel...from gentoo sources...I need to use either the Intelfb driver or the vesafb driver, but I had luck with neither. vesa-tng driver does not work either at all.. |
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reydan
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| Posted: Sun Dec 18, 2005 5:03 pm Post subject: okay got it working |
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| was able to get it working but not without sacrifices....I used vbetest to find the available video modes...and the only available video modes for this were 1024x768 with only 16 colors, 800 x 600,also with 16 colors, and 640x480 with the full color depth...if you want all the pretty graphics, you'll have to sacrifice some resolution: use the vesafb framebuffer driver, and pass the kernel option vga=785, that should give you at least something decent to look at....when using gensplash |
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meranto
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| Posted: Wed Jan 11, 2006 4:11 pm Post subject: Re: okay got it working |
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| reydan wrote: | | was able to get it working but not without sacrifices....I used vbetest to find the available video modes...and the only available video modes for this were 1024x768 with only 16 colors, 800 x 600,also with 16 colors, and 640x480 with the full color depth...if you want all the pretty graphics, you'll have to sacrifice some resolution: use the vesafb framebuffer driver, and pass the kernel option vga=785, that should give you at least something decent to look at....when using gensplash |
look at my topic: https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-2998238.html#2998238
I hope this helps you.
It gives me a 1024x768 32 bit 60Hz gensplash-themed framebuffer (with the emergence theme, livecd does not work at all with any configuration on my system).
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Annapurna
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| Posted: Wed Jan 11, 2006 5:15 pm Post subject: |
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I have an Inspiron 700m with that chipset and I found I had to use:
vesafb:1024x768-24@60,mtrr,ywrap OR vesafb:1024x768-16,mtrr,ywrap
I'm using kernel 2.6.14-r5 so maybe it works better with that than the 2.6.12 series. I found trying the get the intelfb working with gensplash was hopeless and that if I put the refresh rate at 70 rather than 60 then the framebuffer didn't work either. To use the vga= mode selection there is an option you must enable in the kernel. Unfortunately I am on a Windoze computer at school right now so I can't check my kernel options precisely.
Maybe you might want to emerge a 2.6.14 or 2.6.15 kernel and test it out and see if that fixes it |
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meranto
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| Posted: Fri Jan 13, 2006 8:55 am Post subject: |
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The problem mainly resides in the available modes:
| Code: | | cat /proc/fb0/modes |
this will give all the available modes, which will be this for me (inspiron 1150, i852gmv graphics):
| Code: | 1024x768-8
640x480-8
800x600-8
640x480-16
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livecd-2005.1 does not support 8 bits, so that's why it doesn't work.
The emergence theme does support 8 bits, but only with a silent or verbose image. The progress bar will not work in silent mode at 8bpp.
It will be no surprise that everyting worked perfect when using 640x480-16
How do these available modes get defined? Is there a way to add modes? (probably somewhere in the kernel config)
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