Linux-kernel mailing list archive 1998-50,: Re: Screen FUBAR in Quake ( Was Re: SB sound FUBAR in Quake2)

# Re: Screen FUBAR in Quake ( Was Re: SB sound FUBAR in Quake2)

Brion Vibber (brion@gizmo.usc.edu)
Sat, 12 Dec 1998 15:42:07 -0800 (PST)

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On Wed, 9 Dec 1998, Tim Timmerman wrote:

> However, during the last build of kernel 2.1.131, I decided to
> experiment with Vesa framebuffers. (Must say, way cool.. that's a
> display I feel really comfortable with). Unfortunately, this seems
> to mean that the screen is completely broken, it looks like my
> first experiments with X.

I had this problem, fixed it by tweaking a setting in svgalib... Don't
know what you're running, but I've got a Riva 128 card (Canopus Total3d
128V) and am using the Vesa driver for svgalib as well (for whatever
reason the NV3 driver segfaults for me). I believe the setting in question
was "VesaText"... check the documentation in a current svgalib 1.3.1
snapshot for details on what it's supposed to do.

-- brion vibber (brion@gizmo.usc.edu | brion@pobox.com)

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