Thanks for the information, last night I was working with a fresh install of 7.3 with the 2.4.10 kernel, I then booted into that with an older kernel I think 2.4.x from 7.1. This allowed me to get into a screwed up graphic mode and I then ran sax2 which said I was using kde 3x and it was going to start 4x. Amazingly I got a perfect screen so it can be configured if you just can get into sax2, I believe I played with the matrox g200 driver. It was perfect but I lost it when I logged out. On the next login it was strange, but I got it to the point that If I can get it working again should I look at some parametes (that would show me the parameters built so I then could document it for other unfortunates and then I could modify the sax2 -a build files) Also, I used to be an assembly programmer and used to play with device drivers (many years ago, so maybe I could look at the driver imsttfb in the kernel from 2.4 and see if I could get that to work. I appreciate your kind help.

-----Original Message----- From: Olaf Hering <olh@suse.de>@SUN Sent: Friday, December 07, 2001 20:20 To: AllanL Cc: suse-ppc@suse.com Subject: [suse-ppc] Re: boot parameter lost and then yast2 thinks you are vga 16

<<...OLE_Obj...>> On Thu, Dec 06, AllanL wrote:

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[1]http://sdb.suse.de/en/sdb/html/snwint_bootparameter.html

describes a problem where yast2 apparently gets confused and starts vga. If I have a twin turbo card, should I then say on the boot

x11i=fbdev video=fbdev

You should boot with the "No video driver" option.

It seeems the twin turbo card doesnt work anymore with recent kernels. There is nothing I can do, you could try to force it with a kernel parameter ala:

video=imsttfb:vmode:17,cmode:8

But it should be activated when it detects the device. The best what you can do is to try either older kernels from our ftp server. Grab the vmlinux.gz files. Extract them with Mac Gzip from suseboot:tools. ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/ppc/kernel/

I have now a lot of reports that it doesnt work anymore, so I guess your are out of luck. You could try to get another card, ATI Radeon might work.

Gruss Olaf

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