On Apr 6, 2011 7:12 AM, "fei huang" <daniel.huangfei@gmail.com> wrote:
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> 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.
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> thanks
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> 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