Re: can't load X due to...

Heather Stern escribió:

> > > > When I booted our lnx-bbc distro :-) I selected options 2 or 3.
> > > > 
> > > > I received the following message:
> > > > "You passed an undefined mode number"
> > > > Then I pressed SPACE to continue.
> > > 
> > > I believe this means that your video card is currently unsupported.
>  
> > Where can I find which cards are supported?
>  
> You need a VESA 2.0 compatible video card.  These are quite thick on the
> ground, however some very high end cards Do Their Own Thing, and some
> really old video cards that were good in their time only speak VESA 1.2
> ... and the kernel framebuffer doesn't handle those.

Okay, this is the answer I needed. I'll found one at work, I _really_ want
to try lnx-bbc :-P

> > I'm currently using linux in these machines so I suppose you cutted off
> > some drivers from XFree.
>  
> No, the kernel framebuffer and Xfree don't use the same code, afaik.
> However, our instance of X would use the framebuffer, if it had worked
> for you, by just talking to the kernel interface for it.
> 
> > One of these video cards is a Permedia2 (3dlabs driver), more precisely
> > a Texas Instruments TVP4020 [Permedia 2].
> > 
> > Greentings.
> 
> Hmm. I would have thought those would be new enough to have proper VESA
> support.  Oh well. Normal kernels have several customized framebuffers
> available for a large batch of video cards - we don't have the room to
> build them all in.  Yours is probably among the DO Their Own Thing types
> of card.  Sorry.

Thanx a lot for your answer.

-
Roberto
Mendoza - Argentina