On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 10:43:04PM +1000, Trevor Callow wrote:
>
> Answer to this question is probably very simple but it alludes me.
>
> I have a alpha station 4/166 running Debian potato. It has tga card and
> would like to run a fixed frequency monitor on it "hp a2094b". The console
> works fine with fbset "my mode" @ 1280x1024 then loses it next boot.
>
> My problem is that I need to know where I can change the default boot video
> mode from 640x480 to what is required for the fixed freq. monitor.
>
> Can somebody please point me in the right direction ie. doc or where to
> change a file. Have looked in /etc/rc*.* but nothing seems obvious.
>
You can pass the parameters to the kernel at boot time. In this case,
TFM to R are the BootPrompt-HOWTO, man lilo.conf(5), and
/usr/src/linux/Documentation/fb/tgafb.txt.
In case you don't have the kernel sources installed, I will excerpt
the relevent parts of tgafb.txt:
>Configuration
>=============
>
>You can pass kernel command line options to tgafb with
>`video=tga:option1,option2:value2,option3' (multiple options should be
>separated by comma, values are separated from options by `:').
>Accepted options:
>
>font:X - default font to use. All fonts are supported, including the
> SUN12x22 font which is very nice at high resolutions.
>
>mode:X - default video mode. The following video modes are supported:
> 640x480-60, 800x600-56, 640x480-72, 800x600-60, 800x600-72,
> 1024x768-60, 1152x864-60, 1024x768-70, 1024x768-76,
> 1152x864-70, 1280x1024-61, 1024x768-85, 1280x1024-70,
> 1152x864-84, 1280x1024-76, 1280x1024-85
>
FWIW, Here's the append line I use for my HP A1097C and matrox
millenium II:
append = "video=matrox:sync:0x28,xres:1280,yres:1024,depth:8,pixclock:7407,
left:192,right:64,upper:55,lower:3,hslen:192,vslen:3"
There is actually no linebreak in the actual line in lilo.conf, I just
added it to keep the email readable. Lilo doesn't linebreakes even if
you escape the newline.
HTH
your pal dave
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Dave Thayer
Denver, Colorado USA
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