On Sun, 5 Mar 2000, Ben Collins wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 05, 2000 at 04:19:22PM +0200, Denis J. Cirulis wrote: > > Hello ! > > > > I have ATI AGP card,debian potato with compiled in atifb module. I read all > > the stuff in Framebuffer-HOWTO like : > > > > /etc/lilo.config > > > > vga=792 > > append="video=matrox:...." and so on > > > > When i'm booting linux i see very nice penguin logo but my console is still > > 640x480-256 , not the mode i mentioned in lilo. > > After the boot process i can make fbset -a "1024x768-75" and i have very > > nice large console. > > In LILO, you need to use the hex version of your setting. From looking at > Documentation/fb/matroxfb.txt in the kernel source, you want either > "vga=0x318" or it might be "vga=0x118" (which I assume is 1024x768 at > 32bbp). i too have an ATI video card in one of my machines. The 2.3.xx atyfb server has code to switch video modes with a kernel option, but the 2.2.xx code aparantly does not. You can run it with vesafb and pass an integer video mode, but you won't get any acceleration.
