On Monday, April 29, 2002 9:01 AM "Lionel Lecoq" <lionel_lecoq@yahoo.com> wrote: > Hi, > Problem with the vesa is that it is not accelerated. I have an old laptop with an S3 > Inc.|86cM65 [Aurora64V+] and 2MB I can run it with V4 and VESA, but V3 and SVGA (accelerated) runs > much faster so I downgraded. Actually KDE 2.2.1, gnome etc... run quite well on V3 > Cheers > Lionel > > <snip> > > I managed to get it going through vesa fb dev in the kernel it's a little > > sloppy. > > > > But it's ok for now. Just recompile the kernel with fbdev with vesa supp > > vga=-3 (Option for lilo) and enter 313 after showing modes, and you've got > > (with a little overhead) 800*600 16 bits. > </snip> > After I managed to get it up and running using Ringo Harmsens hints, I played around again and soon got lost again, probably due to a problem with the config or the kernel. The system locks up during the boot phase and I can no longer login at all. I decided to reinstall from scratch and stick with V3 for now. Thanks a lot for your help. Peter
