Joe Morris (NTM) wrote:
On 12/04/2003 12:06 AM, Felix Miata wrote:
Without the piping, it starts to do the same thing that happened on my 8.2 box, writing the first group of output lines on the same line, but then printing each supported mode on a separate line.
I think what you are seeing is the scanning of the cards capabilities, which produces some writing all on the same line (same for all hwinfo scans). After the scans, it will print out the results on separate lines
All those entries that scroll on the same line produce separate lines piped through grep or less.
I tried again with both grep and less on the 8.2 box, and both those fail as well.
Since you are using the same card in 8.1 which is working (which means the card does support framebuffers), I would suspect an acpi problem with your system in 8.2 that keeps the framebuffer from working in 8.2, thus the failure to print out any capabilities. If it is a pci video card, maybe a boot line such as pci=noacpi would allow it to work, or
The video cards were designed in 1996, the motherboards in 1997. The BIOS dates are 1999. I've never needed any boot parameters for apic or acpi on any of my systems in any distro before. I doubt this hardware knows anything about them.
acpi=off, but if splash is all that is not working properly, it may not
I don't care whether splash would work or not. I intentionally disabled it.
be worth fixing.
Maybe I wasn't making myself clear. The ONLY things that totally fail are YaST/YaST2 and 'hwinfo --framebuffer'. The former produce an XF86Config file missing two parameters ABSOLUTELY REQUIRED for my video cards to work in XFree86: VideoRam 4096 Option "noaccel" Once I modifiy YaST's defectively produced config file, X works just fine, all the way up to 16 bit 1600x1200. In contrast to this broken 8.2 behavior, 8.1 got it right the first try during initial installation, IIRC the only distro with an XFree86 v4.x version ever to do so. -- "You will know the truth, and the truth will set you free." John 8:32 NIV Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 Felix Miata *** http://members.ij.net/mrmazda/