Re: Framebuffer on nVidia NV18GL?

It's ok, I've got the framebuffer working with vesafb-tng and it's a 
nice 1280x1024 resolution screen. I decided against using the nvidia 
framebuffer since it is apparently not compatible with the nvidia binary 
drivers, which I may want to use.

-h

Hari Sekhon



James Lehman wrote:
> If you don't see Tux the penguin in the upper left corner of the screen
> during boot, then your kernel is not coming up with a frame buffer. Trying
> anything after that is pointless. Either fiddle with your kernel some more
> or get another video card.
>
> James.   :o)
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Hari Sekhon" <[email protected]>
> To: <[email protected]>
> Sent: Friday, October 13, 2006 8:54 AM
> Subject: [Linux-fbdev-users] Framebuffer on nVidia NV18GL?
>
>
>   
>> I have a new machine with an nVidia NV18GL [Quadro FX 550] card in it. I
>> have compiled both vesafb-tng and nvidia framebuffer support in to the
>> kernel and tried various things without success.
>>
>> I find the whole framebuffer device thing a bit weird in practice, a bit
>> hit-and-miss, sometimes I get it and sometimes I don't.
>>
>> I have tried various lines in my grub menu.lst such as
>>
>> kernel (hd0,2)/boot/kernel-2.6.17-gentoo-r8 root=/dev/sda3
>> video=vesafb:mtrr:3,ywrap,1024x768-32@85
>>
>> which was taken from the usually excellent gentoo handbook and
>>
>> kernel (hd0,2)/boot/kernel-2.6.17-gentoo-r8 root=/dev/sda3
>> video=nvidiafb vga=0x318
>>
>> but neither seem to work. I just get an error immediately on boot saying
>> the mode wasn't recognised or something and it gives me a list of modes
>> to choose from, all of which end up in a normal looking terminal without
>> the nice framebuffer screen. I am a little confused by the lack of clear
>> documentation on this.
>>
>> Could somebody point me in the right direction?
>>
>> -- 
>> Hari Sekhon
>>
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