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matroxfb modes
Could someone please help me out with matroxfb?
I'm trying to set up the frame buffer so I can get a bigger vt than the default 80x25 chars.... Simply compiling matroxfb support results in my terms being completely corrupted.... I've tried several of the modes in fb/matroxfb.txt docs, but all I get is varying degrees of corruption in the text modes, and my X windows shrink.... Clearly I'm missing something. I've done this successfully before, but not with matrox cards.... My video card is a G550: 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Matrox Graphics, Inc. MGA G550 AGP (rev 01) (prog-if 00 [VGA]) Subsystem: Matrox Graphics, Inc. Millennium G550 Dual Head DDR 32Mb Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 5 Memory at d8000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=32M] Memory at da000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K] Memory at db000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=8M] Expansion ROM at unassigned [disabled] [size=128K] Capabilities: [dc] Power Management version 2 Capabilities: [f0] AGP version 2.0 |
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On Wed, 19 Jan 2005 15:02:20 UTC in comp.os.linux.hardware, Captain
Dondo wrote: Could someone please help me out with matroxfb? I'm trying to set up the frame buffer so I can get a bigger vt than the default 80x25 chars.... Simply compiling matroxfb support results in my terms being completely corrupted.... I've tried several of the modes in fb/matroxfb.txt docs, but all I get is varying degrees of corruption in the text modes, and my X windows shrink.... Clearly I'm missing something. I've done this successfully before, but not with matrox cards.... My video card is a G550: 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Matrox Graphics, Inc. MGA G550 AGP (rev 01) (prog-if 00 [VGA]) Subsystem: Matrox Graphics, Inc. Millennium G550 Dual Head DDR 32Mb Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 5 Memory at d8000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=32M] Memory at da000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K] Memory at db000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=8M] Expansion ROM at unassigned [disabled] [size=128K] Capabilities: [dc] Power Management version 2 Capabilities: [f0] AGP version 2.0 This is the append line from my /etc/lilo.conf. It sets the vertical refresh rate to 75Hz and it's probably that that causes your problems. append = "video=matrox:vesa:0x11A,fv:75" My kernel has matroxfb support built-in, not as a module. I think you can do the same sort of thing as a module but you'd have to pass parameters to the module as you load it and those may differ in format from the ones I use. The 0x11A tells it to run my console at 1280x1024x16bpp - you may need to pick a different mode if you don't have a monitor capable of supporting this sort of resolution. -- Trevor Hemsley, Brighton, UK. Trevor-Hemsley at dsl dot pipex dot com |
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On Wed, 19 Jan 2005 15:15:42 +0000, Trevor Hemsley wrote:
This is the append line from my /etc/lilo.conf. It sets the vertical refresh rate to 75Hz and it's probably that that causes your problems. append = "video=matrox:vesa:0x11A,fv:75" My kernel has matroxfb support built-in, not as a module. I think you can do the same sort of thing as a module but you'd have to pass parameters to the module as you load it and those may differ in format from the ones I use. The 0x11A tells it to run my console at 1280x1024x16bpp - you may need to pick a different mode if you don't have a monitor capable of supporting this sort of resolution. OK, thanks. I got a graphics console at 1024x768 - I guess matrox wants 75Hz refresh, and I was using 72..... Two issues: 1. The font stayed the same - I still have 80x25; I'm looking for something bigger. Any way to set the equivalent of the vga=791 setting? 2. I've lost acceleration under X... Any way to run both a matrox fb for the consoles and the matrox mga driver for X? Or to get acceleration under X using matroxfb? At least from the kernel docs (fb/matroxfb.txt) it should seem possible, but I'm not sure how.... Thanks. |
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On 19 Jan 2005 15:15:42 GMT, Trevor Hemsley wrote: On Wed, 19 Jan 2005 15:02:20 UTC in comp.os.linux.hardware, Captain Dondo wrote: Could someone please help me out with matroxfb? I'm trying to set up the frame buffer so I can get a bigger vt than the default 80x25 chars.... Simply compiling matroxfb support results in my terms being completely corrupted.... .... This is the append line from my /etc/lilo.conf. It sets the vertical refresh rate to 75Hz and it's probably that that causes your problems. append = "video=matrox:vesa:0x11A,fv:75" And as another data point, my line reads: append="video=matrox:vesa:0x1BB" Works nicely, and switching between X and console doesn't corrupt either one. This is with a G400 though; I own a G550, but its machine is headless. /Jorgen -- // Jorgen Grahn jgrahn@ Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu \X/ algonet.se R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn! |
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