From: Marcus Sundberg <mackan@stacken.kth.se>
  To  : ggi-develop@eskimo.com
  Date: Fri, 12 Mar 1999 02:34:07 +0000

Re: installation woes

Nathan Strong wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 11 Mar 1999 becka@rz.uni-duesseldorf.de wrote:
> 
> > This indicates a not-quite-VGA-compatible card. I get the same problem
> > when I run the VGA KGi driver under BOCHS.
> >
> > AFAIK you can safely comment out the range between (inclusive):
> >
> >         temp1 = io_in8(FCTRLr);
> > and
> >         io_out8(temp1, (IS_MONO_IO ? FCTRLwm : FCTRLwc));
> >
> > Please check if that works. If it does, we should make that check optional.
> 
> Well, the insertion process got a little farther this time. Here's the
> result:
> 
> IBM VGA chipset driver rev $Revision: 1.16 $
> Detected 256KBytes of Video RAM
> KGI monitor driver rev $Revision: 1.12 $
> VGA DAC driver rev. $Revision: 1.6 $
> VGA clock driver rev $Revision: 1.5 $,  common code:$Revision: 1.7 $
> IBM VGA driver loaded.
> error: kgifb_set_var: Unsupported bpp '1'.
> error: kgifb_set_var: Unsupported bpp '1'.
> error: kgifb_set_var: Unsupported bpp '8'.
> error: kgifb_set_var: Unsupported bpp '16'.
> error: kgifb_set_var: Unsupported bpp '24'.
> error: kgifb_set_var: Unsupported bpp '32'.
> error: kgifb_set_var: Unsupported bpp '1'.
> error: kgifb_set_var: Unsupported bpp '1'.
> error: kgifb_set_var: Unsupported bpp '8'.
> error: kgifb_set_var: Unsupported bpp '16'.
> error: kgifb_set_var: Unsupported bpp '24'.
> error: kgifb_set_var: Unsupported bpp '32'.
> error: kgifb_set_var: Unsupported bpp '1'.
> error: kgifb_set_var: Unsupported bpp '1'.
> error: kgifb_set_var: Unsupported bpp '8'.
> error: kgifb_set_var: Unsupported bpp '16'.
> error: kgifb_set_var: Unsupported bpp '24'.
> error: kgifb_set_var: Unsupported bpp '32'.
> error: kgifb_set_var: Unsupported bpp '1'.
> error: kgifb_set_var: Unsupported bpp '8'.
> error: kgifb_set_var: Unsupported bpp '16'.
> error: kgifb_set_var: Unsupported bpp '24'.
> error: kgifb_set_var: Unsupported bpp '32'.
> error: kgicon: Cannot find any usable video mode.

This means that you did something weird when you built your kernel.
Please reconfigure the kernel with CONFIG_FBCON_ADVANCED turned
_off_ and rebuild it, then everything should work fine by the looks
of the rest of the messages.

//Marcus
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