[ltp] Full screen console - positive side effect

[Martin Fluch]

Friedemann Baitinger <fb@baiti.net> wrote:

> Martin,
> this post made me finally switch to the vesa fb stuff, however, I can't
> get it to work.

> I have built the kernel as described here in this list a while ago and
> at boot I specify 'vga=ask' and enter the mode '031a' which is the vesa
> mode for a 64K colors 1280x1024 display. If I now do a 'startx', the
> display is screwed up such that only the top 60% of the display are
> touched at all and also, a ghost image of a top left corner anchored
> xterm shows up again at the right side of the display. Any ideas?

> PS: I am currently using Bill Mair's latest Xserver with the ttf stuff
> included.

I use the stock 3.3.3.1 XServer (SVGA) from XFree86 without any patches
runing with 16k colors

the vb frambufer is working with 256 colors in the 0x305 mode (as i have
1024x768 ... )

MArtin

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