Re: lifebook s6010 and VESA console

Gianmarco,

Sadly, you have a newer video chip/video BIOS which omits some of the
older modes.  Specifically, you are missing:

   mode#     flags   type    size       font      window      linear
buffer
------------------------------------------------------------------------
-------
258 (0x102) 0x0000000b G 800x600x4 4     8x16  0xa0000 64k 64k
0x00000000 1984k
:
260 (0x104) 0x0000000b G 1024x768x4 4    8x16  0xa0000 64k 64k
0x00000000 1984k

The VESA_800x600 logic only works with these older modes, I believe
called "planar".  You can recognize these modes by the (space) 4
instead of (space) 1 under size.  In fact, to keep the logic even
simpler they only supported mode 258 - because it does not span more
than one 64k page of video memory.

Greg

-----Original Message-----

>Hi everyone,
>I am trying to use a VESA console mode (VESA_800x600) on a fujitsu
>lifebook 
>s6010 .
>I have in the kernel both options VESA and SC_PIXEL_MODE and I use the

>iso-thin-8x16 (8x14 and 8x8 too) fonts.
>
>Until now I didn't find a valid mode for vidcontrol to operate in more
>than 
>80 cols. or in graphic mode.
>The vidcontrol -i info show a very few mode (if compared to those of
the
>my 
>toshiba 3440 which happily use VESA_800x600 mode).
>
>Here they are:
>     mode#     flags   type    size       font      window      linear
>buffer
>-----------------------------------------------------------------------
-------
:
:
>  26 (0x01a) 0x00000003 G 640x480x4 4     8x16  0xa0000 64k 64k
0x00000000
>256k
>  27 (0x01b) 0x00000003 G 640x480x4 4     8x16  0xa0000 64k 64k
0x00000000
>256k
:
:
>257 (0x101) 0x0000000f G 640x480x8 1     8x16  0xa0000 64k 64k
0xe8000000
>8000k
>259 (0x103) 0x0000000f G 800x600x8 1     8x16  0xa0000 64k 64k
0xe8000000
>8000k
>261 (0x105) 0x0000000f G 1024x768x8 1    8x16  0xa0000 64k 64k
0xe8000000
>8000k
>263 (0x107) 0x0000000f G 1280x1024x8 1   8x16  0xa0000 64k 64k
0xe8000000
>8000k
:
:
>
>dmesg shows:
>VESA: v3.0, 8000k memory, flags:0x1, mode table:0xc02a8300 (1000040)
>VESA: Almador Graphics Chip Accelerated VGA BIOS
>[...]
>vga0: <Generic ISA VGA> at port 0x3c0-0x3df iomem 0xa0000-0xbffff on
isa0
:
:
>
>Under windows xp it is seen as:
>Intel 830M Graphic controller-0
>Intel 830M Graphic controller-1
>
>while X windows works in this moment with the VESA driver (the chipset
>will 
>be supported in the next relase).
>
>So to summarize: Is any hope to use it in a better way in console than
the 
>80x30 mode?
>
>Thanks for attention and sorry for the long msg.
>
>P.s
>Happy new year :-)
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>Best Regards,
>Gianmarco Giovannelli ,  "Unix expert since yesterday"
>http://www.gufi.org/~gmarco
>
>
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