Re: framebufer and radeonfb

Antonino Daplas <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.fbdev.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Sun, 2003-02-23 at 20:33, leif gensert wrote:
> i have a ati radeon 8500 and i want to use radeonfb for my framebuffer
> 
> it actually works with the atyfb module and lilo.conf lines "vga=792" and append="video=atyfb:mode:1024x768,font:SUN12x22" vesafb also works.
> 
> ok first stupid question:
> does it make sense to use radeonfb

atyfb and radeonfb seems to have overlapping device support (R100's,
R200's and RV200's at least).  Choose which works best for you.

> 
> when i use radeonfb i framebuffer starts but i only get 640x480 on my console. what am i doing wrong? i tried everything "video=radeonfb:mode:1024x768,font:SUN12x22" does not work without append it does not work and "video=atyfb:mode:1024x768,font:SUN12x22" doesn't work neither.
> 

The mode: parameter is not needed.  Try:

"video=radeonfb":font:SUN12x22,1024x768

Tony




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