[ltp] Savage framebuffer driver

John Shane linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Sat, 19 Aug 2006 12:47:40 -0500


On Sat, 19 Aug 2006 08:12:40 +0200
Hannes Kuhnert <hannes@froschmaschine.net> wrote:

> Does anyone know how to specify video modes for the Savage
> framebuffer driver at boottime?
> 
> It seems that it doesn’t understand VESA driver options like
> “vga=0x318”. I couldn’t find any hint in the kernel documentation.
> I would prefer the Savage driver over the generic VESA driver if I
> knew how to use it with the right display resolution.
> -- 
> Hannes Kuhnert, Chemnitz, Germany

Try using vga=792 instead.

  FRAMEBUFFER RESOLUTION SETTINGS
     +-------------------------------------------------+
          | 640x480    800x600    1024x768   1280x1024
      ----+--------------------------------------------
      256 | 0x301=769  0x303=771  0x305=773   0x307=775
      32K | 0x310=784  0x313=787  0x316=790   0x319=793
      64K | 0x311=785  0x314=788  0x317=791   0x31A=794
      16M | 0x312=786  0x315=789  0x318=792   0x31B=795
     +-------------------------------------------------+