FrameBuffer without LILO (ATLAS ISA)

bbawkon · ‎2004-01-07

Posted on January 07, 2004 at 16:48

bbawkon · ‎2003-12-08

Posted on December 08, 2003 at 13:39

Hello.

Has anyone figured out a way to initilize the frame buffer under linux without using a vga= line in lilo? I'd like to boot the board with the linux bootloader, but it of course doesn't use LILO at all. I've seen some mention of the append= line, but the general consensus seems to be that a vga= line is still necessary.

Any help, as always, is greatly appreciated,

Ben

rsmith2 · ‎2004-01-07

Posted on January 07, 2004 at 16:48

From what I see in the driver code I don't think this is possible. The code depends on it. I wen't so far as to remove the line that specifically checks for this and the kernel dumped an oops with a division by zero error.

The append line doesen't seem to work either. There is code in the driver to parse the append line but it dosen't appear to get called.

Do you actually have the frame buffer working? I'm trying to get it to work with a 2.4.22 kernel without much success. Something is wrong with the way it blits data into the video memory as any images I try to display are messed up.