Dell Latitude CPi and framebuffer
Forum: Laptops
Topic: Dell Latitude CPi and framebuffer
started by: red_Marvin
Posted by red_Marvin on May 21 2006,12:10
I have an old Dell Latitude CPi (PII266MHz, 128Mb RAM)which I have successfully managed to boot DSL as a live cd with "fb1024x768" as boot parameter, and then choosing Xfbdev, no usb mouse, and IMPS/2 Mouse.
I want to be able to run from the hd, but when I installed it I
haven't successfully made it use the frambuffer mode instead of
the standard, which garbles the screen.
I've searched around a little but haven't found a solution targeting my problem in a way I (fairly new gnu/linux user) could understand...
Posted by andrewb on May 22 2006,01:46
You'll need to edit etc/lilo.conf or boot/grub/menu.lst depending on whether you're using lilo or grub to boot the HD system. The fb1024x768 boot parameter will have to be added to the APPEND= section in lilo.conf with lilo, or as a kernel line arguement in grub's menu.listget to get the framebuffer mode working correctly.
Posted by red_Marvin on May 22 2006,08:52
Hmm I guess I'll replace vga=791 with fb1024x768 then?I sort of tried editing grub's options from inside grub,
but I probably didn't manage to save correctly...
I'll boot with the live-cd later and mount the hd to edit the
file itself later today.
Thanks for the help so far...
Posted by red_Marvin on May 22 2006,16:33
Sorry for double posting...I changed vga=normal to fb1024x768 in grub.lst
but after login I get the message:
| Code Sample |
| xinit: Broken pipe (errno 32): unable to connect to X server. xinit: No such process (errno 3): unexpected signal 13. |
and then I only get cli. Any suggestions?
Posted by roberts on May 23 2006,00:45
The vga codes are available by booting the liveCD and press F3 to see the table. You cannot put that text as a parameter to vga.Also the frambuffer is specified in the file /home/dsl/.xserverrc
You can edit it manually or allow the system to regenerate it.
If you can see the menu with the current configuration then select Window Manager then exit. At the system prompt type xsetup.sh and manually setup your X. If your screen is currently unreadbale then press Ctrl-Alt-Backspace to get to system prompt then xsetup.sh
Posted by red_Marvin on May 23 2006,15:32
Hehe, silly me, I just noticed that grub comes with afb1027x768 option preconfigured in the /boot/grub/menu.lst
And IT WORKS!
Thankyou for your patience.