Felix Miata wrote:
That must be one seriously wonderful old antique server. Doesn't it have a slot you could put a less antique video card in? Did you ever investigate doing a VBIOS upgrade?
I don't think it is possible -- it's onboard -- though I could be wrong.
The card:
0a:03.0 VGA compatible controller: Matrox Graphics, Inc. MGA G200eW WPCM450 (rev
0a) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
Subsystem: Dell PowerEdge T610 MGA G200eW WPCM450
Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping-
SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx-
Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- I used to have Matrox cards that had the same limited compatibility with
VESA and framebuffer as older Matrox cards. They were AGP G400s. There is no x64-PCI-E nor AGP slot. There are PCI-E-x4 slots
available (2 I think, and maybe (not sure if space allows a
64-bit PCI-X slot. solved the problem with VBIOS upgrades, making them as framebuffer
compatible as anything else I've ever used. The card **IS** framebuffer compat (in 1280x768x32 OR 1280x1024x16
on a 1920x1200 included monitor (!).
lilo feeds it the appropriate VGA command line.
I see the kernel boot until it hits "init"... then it flips into
framebuff mode .. trying for: 128x48... which was about what it was...
on a 1200 high screen, I said about 1/3, 384/1200 => .32,
close for eyeballin' it. Um... I've see better... at 1024 wide, the closest
it can do is maybe ... hmmm...I dunno. 640x480? -- 1280x768 won't fit..
neither will 1280x1024... Even with *buntu's Grub 1.98, vga=791 ---
I'm using vga = 0x30A
-- I did a vga = ask and 0x30a was the best of the bunch...
I don't WANT to use a frame-buffer -- it's less readable and slower.
Lynn on here asked about how to get text mode too and everyone played 'dumb',
like they didn't know she meant HW text scrolling.
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