Re: diamond stealth 3d2000 + graphical console

Justin A. Kolodziej (4wg7kolodzie@vmsb.csd.mu.edu)
Tue, 15 Sep 1998 18:18:34 -0500

Alan Cox wrote:
>
> > Did you use loadlin? Someone else reported success loading a VESA
> > driver in DOS and then using loadlin. Meanwhile, booting using LILO,
> > vesafb says absolutely nothing. Although I _did_ get a screen full of
> > blue and green dots by messing with the video mode numbers... :)
>
> If you load a DOS Vesa driver you probably need to disable the vesa
> consoles use of paging and "legal" palette setting as Linux blows the TSR
> away so the callbacks drop into oblivion

I lied, I'm booting direcly from a bootkernel disk (in case it
crashes). In any case, I _never_ load a driver before starting linux.

In fact, if I remove the following line from vesafb.c:
if (screen_info.orig_video_isVGA != VIDEO_TYPE_VLFB)
return;

the machine hangs immediatly after choosing a VESA video mode. Which is
probably why the line was put in to begin with... ;^)

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