On Tue, 2006-02-14 at 15:33 -0500, Timothy Miller wrote:
> I humbly apologize if it is inappropriate for me to post this question
> here. I'm not subscribed, and I haven't been in a while. I've
> googled around for answers to this, but I don't find anything that
> directly addresses the issue I'm seeing. Please cc me.
>
> I'm installing a new Gentoo box, and I have configured the
> 2.6.12-gentoo-r6 kernel.
>
> Here's what I have enabled:
>
> + Support for framebuffer devices
> + ATI Radeon display support
> + DDC/I2C for ATI Radeon support
> + Lots of debug output from Radeon drive
> + VGA text console
> + Framebuffer Console support
>
> In the grub.conf file, I have this at the end of the kernel line:
>
> video=radeonfb:1024x768
>
> When booting up, radeonfb finds the device (A Radeon 7000 PCI card),
> the monitor flickers for a second, and then what I get is a 640x480
> screen, but the kernel seems to think it's 1024x768, because text goes
> off the screen.
>
> I've googled for this, but what I find is old stuff where people are
> complaining about seeing a higher resolution than the one they asked
> for. I'm getting a LOWER resolution.
>
> I can't figure out what I'm doing wrong, but there are no kernel error
> messages that tell me anything has gone wrong.
>
> Can anyone help me figure out what I'm doing wrong here? BTW, the
> monitor is a 19" NEC. No chance that the monitor reports via DDC that
> it can't do 1024x768.
Can you send me the debug output ? (dmesg)
Ben.
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