WHOA!!!! got 1280x800 framebuffer working!

yuza

Hi everybody!
I have a brand new P10 satellite with a geforce 5600go. Don't ask me how but after trying some random numbers for the vesafb mode I finally got 1280x800 console framebuffer working using the vesafb driver with vga=0x360. Thought some of you might have been interested... man I'm sooooo happy!

Cagnulein · Posted: Sun May 30, 2004 10:06 am Post subject:

can you give me more information about your success? I have a new Toshiba M30-801 and i still try to set the framebuffer to 1280x800 with your vesa setting but the init kernel crashes

Grassie

yuza · Posted: Thu Jun 03, 2004 9:15 am Post subject:

What kind of crash error do you get?? By the way I don't know if this vesa numbers are somewhat hardware dependent. I have got a nvidia geforce FX 5600go and everything I did was to compile the kernel with both nvidia and vesa support in the framebuffer section. This is the relevant line from my grub.conf

sfcfagwdse · n00b Joined: 29 Mar 2004 Posts: 39 Location: Portland, OR

Awesome! Ive been looking forever for this thanks! Cagnulein I also have and m30 and it works for me.

yuza · Posted: Fri Jun 04, 2004 11:04 pm Post subject:

Glad to have helped! :wink:

Overpeer · Posted: Wed Jul 14, 2004 12:56 pm Post subject:

:S

In my laptop dont work, i have a Kernel panic :S

I have a Toshiba SM30-742 with 1280x800 resolution. The kernel start with framebuffer fonts but crash

Any idea?

A Greeting.

Sgaduuw · Posted: Wed Jul 14, 2004 2:49 pm Post subject:

I'll have to try this on my packard bell m7300 when I get home

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RedScull · n00b Joined: 30 Oct 2004 Posts: 25

I know this is old, but I think I should point out that for those M30 users, that you can't get console framebuffer to work with vesafb-tng
(at least it wouldn't let me set it to 1280x800.. argh!)

I loaded regular vesafb and it works great now.

Thanks fellas

taskara · Posted: Mon Dec 06, 2004 1:28 am Post subject:

I have a dell 700m and when I try this it says "undefined video mode"

fb only seems to work in 1024x768 - can't get 1280x800 going

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dfy · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 05 Apr 2004 Posts: 79

What are the correct settings for 1280x1024@60Hz? I currently only use vga=6 (a textmode afaik) because I never got one of the vga=0xxx options to work - how do I set it up correctly (normal vesafb, no -tng!) ?

UB|K · Posted: Tue Dec 07, 2004 7:14 pm Post subject: