[email protected] <[email protected]> wrote:
> Do I get it right, that, say, if I tell grub to load a kernel and specify
> "vga=xxx" on the kernel command line, grub will interpret it, issue some
> VESA BIOS calls and fill in the screen_info struct? If so, the card often
> supports several modes (VGA, SVGA, VESA, different resolutions, colour
> depths, etc.), right? So, which one will be chosen? Does it depend on the
> specific value I give to "vga="? How do I force VIDEO_TYPE_VLFB (VESA VGA
> in graphic mode) mopde then?
Yup. You probably want to take a look at Documentation/fb/vesafb.txt -
the modes are the same.
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Matthew Garrett | [email protected]
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