New Studio 17 LCD / old YDL installation / not enough colors

Merrill Aldrich yellowdog-general@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
Mon Nov 25 22:37:01 2002


Thanks so much, Patrick -- with Marcus help and yours I am getting 
close. Here's a dumb question: how do I enter
that boot option, and how do I set my system so that it will always boot 
with that option? (Please excuse my newbieness). I have Yaboot 1.1.1.

Thanks,

Merrill

>
>I'm running that exact hardware, and it runs fine (24 bit colour in X). 
>  Here's my fbset output:
>
>mode "1280x1024-60"
>     # D: 107.991 MHz, H: 63.976 kHz, V: 60.015 Hz
>     geometry 1280 1024 1280 1024 32
>     timings 9260 227 69 38 1 112 3
>     hsync high
>     vsync high
>     rgba 8/16,8/8,8/0,8/24
>endmode
>
>The boot option is 'video=aty128fb:1280x1024@60'.
>
>My XF86Config file is attached.
> -- patsmith@pobox.com
>