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From: James Wall <wallservices@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] how ati close source driver works with console framebuffer?
Date: Wed, 6 Apr 2011 08:23:10 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <BANLkTiknVMnXs=0kiOaGp0d3vDMpxoqqJA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BANLkTimbVtEXmqY1O8SgXCCmL9tgmRERWQ@mail.gmail.com>

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On Apr 6, 2011 7:12 AM, "fei huang" <daniel.huangfei@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> hi all, I use ati-drivers started from 10.11, and replace my radeon driver
from xorg-drivers, the documents already mentioned my previous working
radeonfb drivers will no longer work, but no any solutions for user who is
willing to use framebuffer console as before. I googled but no luck, some
says vesa works, but seems not working for me. any advices pls.
>
> thanks
>
> fei
To use vesa you need to add a vga=795 on the kernel command line for 1280 x
1024 screen resolution. For more options put vga=ask on the kernel command
line to see what resolutions available in hexadecimal. For example 0x31B
equals 795 in decimal.
Hope that helps.
James Wall

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  reply	other threads:[~2011-04-06 13:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-04-06 12:07 [gentoo-user] how ati close source driver works with console framebuffer? fei huang
2011-04-06 13:23 ` James Wall [this message]
2011-04-06 15:13   ` Gregory Fontenele

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