[ltp] Another comment VESA framebuffer console

Paul Barrett linux-thinkpad@www.bm-soft.com
Tue, 24 Aug 1999 10:09:23 -0400 (EDT)


Well, with respect to my previous message, "[ltp] Re: Full screen
console om 770Z!!!", I found that the two problems were do to a
configuration error on my part.  Once, I corrected this problem, I
found that the 'cyber_shadow' option needs to be re-invoked, as one
might expect.

Yet, I did find a problem with the use of the VESA FB.  It works fine
on boot, giving the full screen as one would hope, but when I switch
over to the SVGA driver to run X, the screen becomes washed out, even
if the 'cyber_shadow' option is invoked.  Of course, the screen
behaves as expected, if I boot up in one of the standard VGA modes,
which I am now doing.  So it appears as if the 'cyber_shadow' option
is being ignored when I switch between the FB console and the X
server.  I spent several hours this weekend trying many different SGVA
driver options in an effort to correct this, but to no avail.

Has anyone else with a TP 770 experienced this problem?  Any help
would be appreciated.

 -- Paul