vga16fb display size problems (Re: Live CD X autoconfiguration)

[Matthew Garrett]

On Wed, 2005-01-19 at 12:18 +0000, Paul Sladen wrote:
> On Wed, 19 Jan 2005, Marcus Bauer wrote:
> > On Wed, 2005-01-19 at 11:04 +0000, Colin Watson wrote:
> > > > Well, we /know/ that on some hardware vga16fb looks like rubbish while
> > > > vesafb works (hurrah for the craptop).
> 
> In what particular way is either vesafb/vga16fb ''looking rubbish''?

Modprobing vga16fb on the craptop results in a heavily distorted display
- vertical lines are skewed to about 30 degrees, and offset sufficiently
that the picture is unreadable.

(Are you going to be in Cambridge on Saturday? If so, I'll show you)

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Matthew Garrett | mjg59 at srcf.ucam.org