On Tuesday 11 December 2001 00.43, Tim Harrell wrote:
I have 'vga=normal' in lilo.conf as an append parameter to the kernelbut I'm not sure about the status of the frame buffer. Do I need the 'vga=normal' directive on a line by itself in lilo.conf as well as an append parameter to the kernel?
I think it's the same whether you have it on a line by itself or as a kernel append. Do you get the default penguin boot image in the upper left corner, or the suse splash boot? If neither, then you don't have frame buffer support active, and the problems you're experiencing are most likely not framebuffer related.
If I do a make xconfig and go into Frame buffer support, the first item is whether to have frame buffer support itself (and is marked as experimental) and this is set to 'y' (ie compiled in). Most of the particular types of framebuffers beneath this are marked as modules though, and if I select no to the top-level one then all the others disappear and nothing is either compiled in or loaded as a module.
This is what I was thinking of doing, since I'm using the nvidia drivers and not any vesa stuff, I'm assuming there won't be any problem removing the frame buffer support entirely.
No, you just won't have the fancy graphics on tty1. Nothing else should be affected. //Anders