From: Tristan Wibberley <bloater@ps.cus.umist.ac.uk>
  To  : ggi-develop@eskimo.com
  Date: Fri, 5 Mar 1999 14:07:17 +0000

Re: KGIcon/Riva TNT make problems

On Thu, Mar 04, 1999 at 10:06:43PM +0100, Daniel Elenius wrote:
> >Sounds to me like the kernel doesn't know what to do in terms of video.  
> >VESA is not selected by default when VGA isn't installed.  You need to
> >pass the kernel a paramter telling it to use the vesa fb video code.
> >It's soemthing like video=vesa 
> 
> Where do I put that line. Doesn't work to put it in lilo (not just lik 
> e video=vesa anyway), and I shouldn't have to type it every time I
> boot, right?

The framebuffer documentation in the linux source tree tells you how to
do this. The documentation is your friend.

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Tristan Wibberley