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I cant get a high resulution. when i kompiled my kernel with nvidia.

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Gorf

Technical User
Jun 14, 2001
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HI!!

This is a advanced linux question i think.....

When i recompile my kernel with support for my nvidia grafik card. "frame buffer"

it will not work if i enter argument vga=773 in lilo.conf
my old kernel the same ver works fine.


THIS IS IMPORTENT
i dont want to run my system on mudules soo...
how can i do to patch my kernel with the newest nvidia drivers.

this is comming up when i am booting.....
look att the mode 1024x768x8..... but i only get 640x480
vga=773 don´t work, i get the logo.

rivafb: RIVA MTRR set to ON
Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 80x30
rivafb: PCI nVidia NV16 framebuffer ver 0.9.2a (GeForce2-MX, 32MB @ 0xD8000000)
vesafb: abort, cannot reserve video memory at 0xd8000000
vesafb: framebuffer at 0xd8000000, mapped to 0xf980f000, size 32768k
vesafb: mode is 1024x768x8, linelength=1024, pages=4
vesafb: protected mode interface info at c000:b139
vesafb: scrolling: redraw
fb1: VESA VGA frame buffer device

ask more if you want to know???????


I got slackware 8.1 beta2
my kernel is 2.4.18

Please help me :)

 
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