Hello, On Tue, 12 Aug 2014, Felix Miata wrote:
SiS and mga chips and other legacy chips are not affected by including video= on cmdline because there is no KMS support for them. Only KMS responds to video=. Only vga= can specify video mode on ttys for KMS-unsupported gfxchips.
Nope. Matrox Mystique and others respond to "video". From one of the later lilo.conf's I used: image = /boot/bzImage-2.4.25-1 append="video=matrox:vesa:789 ..." I did use XFree 3.3.6 there though, I think, but the above is the kernel matroxfb driver I compiled in those kernels. # zgrep MATROX /proc/config.gz CONFIG_W1_MASTER_MATROX=m CONFIG_FB_MATROX=m CONFIG_FB_MATROX_MILLENIUM=y CONFIG_FB_MATROX_MYSTIQUE=y CONFIG_FB_MATROX_G=y # uname -r 3.1.10-1.29-default See /usr/src/linux/Documentation/fb/matroxfb.txt and most of the others: grep -l video= /usr/src/linux/Documentation/fb/* e.g. /usr/src/linux/Documentation/fb/intelfb.txt video=intelfb:option1,option2=value2 FWIW, -dnh -- I'm going to a meeting...? I'd bore myself to death -- if I weren't already dead. -- Georgia 'George' L. Lass, Dead Like Me -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org