Re: framebuffer with Millennium 2


Subject: Re: framebuffer with Millennium 2
From: Max Weninger (max@takefive.co.at)
Date: Fri Aug 13 1999 - 03:55:10 PDT


Hi,

On 13 Aug, Daniel Potts wrote:
> On Thu, 12 Aug 1999, Praveen Srinivasan wrote:
>
>> For whatever reason, kernels with FB support for matrox don't boot unless
>> you add the following boot parameter: video=matrox:vesa:0x108. That should
>> fix your problem, and after you've booted, you can change the vid mode with
>> fbset.
>
> hmm.. this didn't work for me. It boots the kernel and then the monitor
> goes into power save mode, the machine hangs. Could you send me your
> config file for the kernel.
>
> My system is a UX4/600 with MII/4Mb.

Framebuffer does not work on UX systems :-(

Excerpt from framebuffer HOWTO on alphalinux.org
...
>The Matrox Millennium II frame buffer does not currently seem to work on UX
> systems.
...

Regards

Max

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