[Nottingham] console vesa framebuffer problem

[Martin]

Ashley wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I've just installed Slackware 11.0 on a couple of PC's, and I can't get
> the console framebuffer to work on one of them (Pentium 200Mhz).  Both
> machines have are using the same kernel (bareacpi.i).
> 
> Early in the boot sequence I get the message...
> 
> "You have passed an undefined mode number"
> "Press <RETURN> to see video modes available"...
> 
> The logo is not displayed either.
> 
> I tried the video modes that were offered, but the resolution is really
> low (VGA probably).

Oooer... I've had that for a really old 2 MByte graphics card.

I fixed it by firstly running in text-only mode.

The final fix was to put in another very old graphics card but one that
was a lot more recent than the days of 2 MByte VGA!


An alternative might be to try running without FB.

Good luck,

Cheers,
Martin

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