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Message-ID: <484D1D30.4000205@snafu.de>
Date: Mon, 09 Jun 2008 14:08:16 +0200
From: Oncaphillis <oncaphillis@...fu.de>
To: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: vesafb@...0x1024 used to work for me in 2.4.x
Oh !! This is so embarrassing !!
It's kernel 2.6.24 and 2.6.25 not 2.4.x and 2.5.x
Sorry
O.
Oncaphillis wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a 1600x1024 LCD panel with a nvidia
> GeForce 7600 graphic card. Up until recently I used
> a 2.4.xx kernel and could happily convince it to use
> the vesafb at 1280x1024 res in vertical mode by
> adding "vga=775 fbcfbcon=rotate:3" as a kernel arg.
>
> This stopped to work for me since 2.5.x. The vesafb prompts
> me for some dull resolutions (like 80x60 etc).
>
> Note that 775 never showed up as a supported vesa mode.
> If I supplied any bogus vesa mode (e.g. vga=999999) the
> 2.4.x vesafb driver also only offered me the dull resolutions. But
> explicitly setting it to 775 worked.
>
> Thank you very much indeed
>
> O.
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