Subject: RE: Video refresh too high
From: Pete Peters (ppeters914@home.com)
Date: Mon Jun 18 2001 - 08:38:44 MDT
Uh, Sean, is that a typo? It was suggested you use "video=", but your
post says you used "vmode=".
Pete
-----Original Message-----
From: Sean O. Denney [mailto:sdenney@cise.ufl.edu]
Sent: Sunday, June 17, 2001 8:46 AM
To: Hollis
Cc: yellowdog-general@lists.yellowdoglinux.com
Subject: Re: Video refresh too high
I tried the following, but the same thing happened:
vmode=atyfb:vmode:6
vmode=atyfb:vmode:6,cmode:24
Would it be possible to use the vmlinux from YDL 1.2.1? Or is YDL 2
dependent on the kernel that comes with it?
--- Sean
On Sun, 17 Jun 2001, Hollis wrote:
> On Sunday 17 June 2001 07:52, Sean O. Denney wrote:
> > I did the following
> >
> > video=atyfb:640x480@67
> >
> > But the same thing happened.
>
> Hmm. Try video=atyfb:vmode:6 and see if that one works. (vmode 6 is
> 640x480@67 HZ.) XxY@Z "should" work, but I haven't used it much so I
don't
> know how universal it is.
>
> > Is there anything that has changed in the kernel's video since YDL
> > 1.2.1's stock kernel? Or if this isn't a kernel problem, could it
be
> > BootX?
>
> Well, things probably changed... I don't think it could be a BootX
problem
> though.
>
> > Also, is there a manual that explains all the video arguments that
can
> > be passed through BootX to the kernel?
>
> No. Not at all. :)
>
> -Hollis
>
>
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