Re: Improvement.

--- Heather Stern <[email protected]> wrote:
 
> What complaint does it give, or what happens, when
> you try one of the
> framebuffer modes (my favorite is 3, the 800x600
> mode, as looking
> good on a lot of systems I've used lnx-bbc for...
> but try 640x480,
> too).
> 
> Do you get a blue LNX-BBC piece of art in blue?  If
> you do, after that
> do you see text from our startup, or inky blackness,
> or a wash out to
> white?
> 
> Not getting the LNXBBC art would imply framebuffer
> can't work for you.
> I believe that the framebuffer modes in the Linux
> kernel only support
> VESA 2.0, not VESA 1.2, and that this is kind of
> rare, but does get
> run into. If that's what your finding, a newer video
> card, even from the
> bargain bin, is probably the real right answer.

I get LNX-BBC in art in Text Format. My Video card is
over 4 years old and is 4Mb I believe. I am unable to
do a Mandrake 9.1 Install in Graphics Mode as well.
Knoppix also goes blank on boot (It doesn't load in
text more as well).

Vijay

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