Linux Console Help

[SLG]

I just upgraded my SuSE Server from 9.1 to 10 and now when it is booting up it gets to a certain point and the screen goes blurry with colors and I can no longer use the console. I know it has something to do with my Savage AGP card cause I found this in my boot.log:
<6>savagefb: mapped io at f8a80000
<6>savagefb: probed videoram: 8192k
<6>savagefb: Detected current MCLK value of 83045 kHz
<6>savagefb: 640x480 TFT LCD panel detected and active
<6>savagefb: Limiting video mode to 640x480
<6>savagefb: mapped framebuffer at f8b80000, pbase == d8000000
<6>Mode (800x600) larger than the LCD panel (640x480)
<6>savagefb v0.4.0_2.6: 8064kB VRAM, using 800x600, 37.878kHz, 60Hz
<4>Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 100x37
<6>fb: S3 Savage/IX-MV frame buffer device

Also, when I swap out to an old PCI video card that I borrowed from another server it works. I only use the console for the command line so I do not need a high end video card. It has worked fine until the upgrade so I can only assume something has changed in SuSE 10.

Thanks in advance for any advice.

 

[TrojanWarBlade]

You need to look at your xorg.conf or xfree86.conf file (depending on which you have) and find the "800x600" line for your video card. I guess it doesn't have an entry for "640x480" so simply replace the "800x600" with a "640x480" and restart the X server.
Hopefully that should solve your problem.


Trojan.

 

[SLG]

That is the weird part. I don't even have X installed on this system.

 

[Chacalinc]

Just to clarify, the problem is *frame buffer*, not Xorg.

<6>savagefb: mapped [red]framebuffer[/red] at f8b80000, pbase == d8000000
<6>Mode (800x600) larger than the LCD panel (640x480)
<6>savagefb v0.4.0_2.6: 8064kB VRAM, using 800x600, 37.878kHz, 60Hz
<4>Console: switching to colour [red]frame buffer[/red] device 100x37

(just clarifying... sorry, I don't know what to do)

Chacal, Inc.

 

[Chacalinc]

http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Framebuffer-HOWTO.html

Chacal, Inc.

 

[SLG]

Just for grins, I upgraded another server to SuSE 10 with a Savage Video card. I am having similar problems with it now too so I can only assume that SuSE 10 has a problem with the Savage Chip. I'll post a solution here if I can figure it out.

 

[Chacalinc]

hey... do you have lilo, right? how is your lilo.conf?

Chacal, Inc.

 

[SLG]

Actually, I'm using grub.