[Preston] Framebuffer + Nvidia

dazzle68 preston at mailman.lug.org.uk
Mon Jan 6 19:32:01 2003


What does "vga=794" do?

On Monday 06 January 2003 7:18 pm, Richard Revis wrote:
> I just finished compiling a new kernel, but have been unable to get
> framebuffer to work.
>
> It is enabled in the kernel (gentoo-sources kernel - integrated, not
> modularised), along with the only nvidia driver listed (for riva cards). It
> boots fine, and displays the framebuffer logo, but it will not switch into
> a higher mode when passed the vga=791 kernel options. (It just clicks a
> couple of times.)
>
> The card is a farly generic GForce2 AGP, and the kernel version is 2.4.19.
>
> TIA,