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To: Bongani Hlope <bonganilinux@mweb.co.za>
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Subject: Re: vesafb problem
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Bongani Hlope wrote:

> Strange I'm having the same problem, but I only have 256MB of memory and my GeForce 2 only has 32MB. This is what's on my messages file:
> 
> 
> vesafb: framebuffer at 0xe0000000, mapped to 0xd0807000, size 32768k
> vesafb: mode is 800x600x16, linelength=1600, pages=3
> vesafb: protected mode interface info at c000:c060
> vesafb: scrolling: redraw
> vesafb: directcolor: size=0:5:6:5, shift=0:11:5:0
> Looking for splash picture.... found (800x600, 13683 bytes).
> Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 82x30
> fb0: VESA VGA frame buffer device
> 

Hmmm. That's a different problem than I'm experiencing. Your system 
appears to be correctly remapping the framebuffer and switching to it. 
You don't get a graphical boot? Seems as if you should from the log 
snippet you posted.

-Walt

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