Crotalus
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Posted: Dec. 30 2003,00:18 |
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Ok, your original error was because you were trying to make a framebuffer server on a machine without a fb0 device. I'm not sure about how to make this device with having LILO do it, but here's the fix, made by yours truly.
Once you get the fb0 error, you should be at a standard console. goto to etc (cd etc) and edit lilo.conf (nano lilo.conf). At the top or somewhere near the middle you should see the line 'vga=#' where # could be any number. DSL Initally set this number to a default value that works on most computers, and a few laptops. What you need to do is change this number to one of the below, which ever you prefer.
Colours 640x400 640x480 800x600 1024x768 1152x864 1280x1024 1600x1200
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4 bits | ? ? 0x302 ? ? ? ?
8 bits | 0x300 0x301 0x303 0x305 0x161 0x307 0x31C
15 bits | ? 0x310 0x313 0x316 0x162 0x319 0x31D
16 bits | ? 0x311 0x314 0x317 0x163 0x31A 0x31E
24 bits | ? 0x312 0x315 0x318 ? 0x31B 0x31F
32 bits | ? ? ? ? 0x164 ?
4 bits = 16 colours
8 bits = 256 colours
15 bits = 32,768 colours
16 bits = 65,536 colours
24 bits = 16.8 million colours
32 bits - 16.8 million colours
0x300 = 768 0x301 = 769 0x302 = 770
0x303 = 771 0x305 = 773 0x307 = 775
0x310 = 784 0x311 = 785 0x312 = 786
0x313 = 787 0x314 = 788 0x315 = 789
0x316 = 790 0x317 = 791 0x318 = 792
0x319 = 793 0x31A = 794 0x31B = 795
0x31C = 796 0x31D = 797 0x31E = 798
0x31F = 799 0x161 = 353 0x162 = 354
0x163 = 355 0x164 = 356
Once you have the lilo.conf modded, you need to save and at the console type: lilo. This allows LILO to check out the config file before a restart, if ou don't do this it's likely that you won't be able to start back up. Now, restart OR if you had an Xvesa server on run xsetup.sh and change it to Xfbdev. This has worked for me on my laptop, G/L.
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