From: becka@rz.uni-duesseldorf.de
  To  : ggi-develop@eskimo.com
  Date: Wed, 21 Apr 1999 21:41:23 +0200 (MEST)

Re: Tested beta 2 debian packages

Hi !

> I tried building kgicon last night...  My graphics card is a S3 Trio 64
> (Diamond Stealth 64 DRAM).  My kernel is v2.2.6 with vesafb compiled
> in, but not actually working, because the DS64 doesn't have VBE2.0.
> Before inserting kgicon.o, /proc/fb is empty.  I built kgicon for plain
> vanilla vga, and generic monitor.  On inserting the module, the screen
> goes weird; very large characters, 4-scanline interlaced.  The console
> is obviously working fine, as I can use it even though I can only see
> the top left hand corner.

That sounds a bit weird. Maybe someone changed back the default depth of
kgicon ?

Try explicitly forcing kgicon_width=640,kgicon_height=480,kgicon_bpp=1
or                     kgicon_width=320,kgicon_height=200,kgicon_bpp=8.

The latter should work on anything remotely VGA compatible.

Also note, that you should not boot up in non-80x25, as the VGA driver
doesn't know how to reset any extended registers engaged by that.

CU, Andy

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= Andreas Beck                    |  Email :  <andreas.beck@ggi-project.org> =