[wplug] 2.6.3 kernel & Vesa Framebuffer

Vanco, Don don.vanco at agilysys.com
Thu Feb 26 13:45:34 EST 2004


wplug-admin at wplug.org wrote:
> I recently updated my Slackware 9.1 install to kernel 2.6.3.
> Everything's working fine, except I'm not getting the
> 1024x768x256 framebuffer on startup that I had with 2.4.22.
> I guess I'm confused as to how booting a different kernel
> would change this.  Below is my lilo.conf file.  Any help would be
> appreciated. 
> 
> Ryan
> 
> #lilo.conf
> boot=/dev/hda
> prompt
> timeout=50
> vga=773
> 
> image=/boot/vmlinuz
> root=/dev/hda2
> label=Linux2422
> read-only
> 
> image=/boot/bzImage
> root=/dev/hda2
> label=Linux2630
> read-only

	Anything in messages?  Are you sure this kernel has fb support
compiled in?

Don



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