2.5.7x: No vga=0x317?

2.5.7x: No vga=0x317?

[Horst von Brand]

This is a Toshiba Satellite notebook 1800 (P3 mobile/1100, 256MiB RAM,
Trident CyberBlade XPAi1 (rev 82) graphics card; RH 9.

STFW for this machine I found that adding "vga=0x317" to the kernel args
uses the full screen on the virtual TTYs (normal is 80x24 in a small
rectangle at the center of the screen). I tried several 2.5 kernels, and
was convinced they didn't boot (no time to investigate further, sorry).
With 2.5.74 I noticed that the machine does in fact boot, but nothing at
all shows up on the screen until X starts. Deleting the "vga=..." stuff
shows the customary 80x24 rectangle, vga=ask gives a only a few 80x<mumble>
modes. The ones I tried are useless.

Anything I can try/hack to pieces? Not exactly urgent, but having
fullscreen vt's is quite nice.

Thanks!
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Re: 2.5.7x: No vga=0x317?

[James Simmons]

> This is a Toshiba Satellite notebook 1800 (P3 mobile/1100, 256MiB RAM,
> Trident CyberBlade XPAi1 (rev 82) graphics card; RH 9.

Are you using the vesafb driver or the Trident one? 

Re: 2.5.7x: No vga=0x317?

[Horst von Brand]

James Simmons <jsimmons@infradead.org> said:
> Horst von Brand <vonbrand@inf.utfsm.cl> said:
> > This is a Toshiba Satellite notebook 1800 (P3 mobile/1100, 256MiB RAM,
> > Trident CyberBlade XPAi1 (rev 82) graphics card; RH 9.
> 
> Are you using the vesafb driver or the Trident one? 

My .config in the relevant section (sans "# mumble foo is not set" lines)
looks like:

#
# Graphics support
#
CONFIG_FB=y
CONFIG_VIDEO_SELECT=y
CONFIG_FB_TRIDENT=m

#
# Console display driver support
#
CONFIG_VGA_CONSOLE=y
CONFIG_MDA_CONSOLE=m
CONFIG_DUMMY_CONSOLE=y

No special setup in initrd above what RH 9 does.
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Departamento de Informatica                     Fono: +56 32 654431
Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria              +56 32 654239
Casilla 110-V, Valparaiso, Chile                Fax:  +56 32 797513