On Tue, 30 Mar 2010 00:32:42 +0200 Piotr Hosowicz wrote:
> Randy Dunlap wrote:
> > On Mon, 29 Mar 2010 22:41:48 +0200 Piotr Hosowicz wrote:
> >
> >> Randy Dunlap wrote:
> >>> On Mon, 29 Mar 2010 22:16:29 +0200 Piotr Hosowicz wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> Hello,
> >>>>
> >>>> Today I had built a new next kernel with these parameters. I did not get
> >>>> what I expected
> >>> I don't think I understand your question.
> >>> What did you expect?
> >> I expected higher resolution console, smaller font etc
> >
> > Boy was I confused. I thought that your question was about the root=
> > kernel boot parameter.
> >
> > Well, there are several questions to be asked. and one more comment.
> >
> > 1. what video (framebuffer) driver are you using?
>
> Ashamed to say, but I do not know. vga=791 works perfectly when I
> specifiy it via GRUB modification, either during pre-booting phase or in
> menu.lst. I thought that it would work if I enable it by the oprions I
> provided in the previous message.
That does sound, hm, suspicious.
> > 2. is it builtin the kernel image or is it a loadable module?
>
> Loadable mofule I suppose, I can see nvidia.ko in /lib/modules/... - I
> install Nbvidia driver with Nvidia tool each time after kernel change.
> Each time the module has to be compiled anew.
So this nvidia driver supports "vga=<value>" ?
> > 3. have you read Documentation/svga.txt and Documentation/fb/{fbcon,vesafb}.txt ?
>
> No, I havent, yet.
> > And my comment is that your question (about video) would be better on the
> > linux-fbdev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx mailing list. It's not about kbuild/kconfig,
> > unless kconfig is not saving the build parameters correctly...
>
> But I don't know if it is a fb problem, I quoted kernel config
> parameters I used, may be there is a problem with them?
Well, to me, all of the questions are about video/framebuffer usage.
That's why I recommended that mailing list.
Although if you are using the binary-only nvidia driver, it will probably
be difficult to help you.
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~Randy
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