[Bug 11541] No framebuffer for sis chipset

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------- Additional Comments From bersace03 at free.fr  2005-09-27 18:06 UTC -------
(In reply to comment #13)
> Sure; put 'vga=791' in /etc/lilo.conf.
> Sure; change the line beginning '# kopt=' in /boot/grub/menu.lst to contain
> 'vga=791', and run update-grub.
Of course I know that, i wonder how to do the res probe automatically at the
boot time (lilo or grub should not do this job).

> 
> > Why use vga16fb and not vesafb ?
> 
> vesafb doesn't work on all hardware either. We can fix your hardware by default
> and break others, or we can break your hardware by default and fix others. At
> the moment we've gone with vga16fb by default because it's simpler (doesn't
> require different vga= arguments in different places) and because, unlike
> vesafb, it supports suspend/resume. Still, the real answer seems to be to fix
> vga16fb.
Okay, but i found that things go stranges. I own ati rage128 and this chipset is
not very well supported (nobody maintain the driver). I own sis which support
badly vga or which vga16fb does not support correctly. So Ubuntu seems to choose
to support old system, but not all of theses, forgeting that, often, those
hardware are not able just do launch a usable GNOME desktop.

If we use vga16fb, how to have a higher resolution than 640x480 ??

I have success with vesafb and suspend/resume on a GeForce Card. But, not on
other device (r128 and sis).

Thanks.



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