Philippe Guyot said:

On Wednesday 05 January 2005 10:03, Sven Luther wrote:

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On Tue, Jan 04, 2005 at 10:39:15PM -0000, Leigh Brown wrote:

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The PReP specs says that the cards should be initialised to a
minimum resolution of 640x480 iirc.  The boot loader has code to
manually reprogram the card *back* into VGA text mode, but only
for a very limited number of cards.  So, if your card is not
supported by fbdev, and isn't one of the very few supported
cards in the boot loader, it simply won't work under PReP.

Ah, ok ... Well i have a cirrus logic card also, and it seems to work. I
have anot yet tried the matrox cards though. Do they need to be special
cards with forth rom, or will any do ?

Well, my box seems to have a matrox video card and I did the install with
my graphical console, not the tty.

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That's because your Matrox card is fully supported by fbdev.

Cheers,

Leigh.