On 13 Mar 00 at 17:48, Petr Vandrovec wrote:
> I am having problems with this: using matroxfb, having created a mode
> which fits my monitor best, I would like to boot with that mode, so that I
> didn't have to set this mode for all VTs.
> If I have:
> append="video=matrox:xres:1056,yres:688,upper:20,lower:0,hslen:6,left:62,right:100,vslen:120,pixclock:9000"
> in lilo.conf, it just ignores the rest of the line after something like ^
> this point, this way using a lower pixclock, which means a refresh rate
> not very neat.
You'll need to change your LILO for one without EBDA patch (or with
correct EBDA patch, if such exist). There are LILOs with some distributions,
which limit kernel commandline to 64 (or 80?) bytes. Try
cat /proc/cmdline (or wc /proc/cmdline). If you'll get
BOOT_IMAGE=Linux ro root=302 ramdisk=0 BOOT_FILE=/boot/vmlinuz devfs=nomount
video=matrox:vesa:0x105 video=matrox:dev:1 pciorder=1:00.0,0:0b.0,0:0a.0
then it is ok. If your cmdline contains only 80 bytes and is cut in the
middle, you have problem.
Best regards,
Petr Vandrovec
vandrove@vc.cvut.cz
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