NeoMagic Video Cards Issues? (Perhaps Others?)

Forum: X and Fluxbox
Topic: NeoMagic Video Cards Issues? (Perhaps Others?)
started by: Crotalus

Posted by Crotalus on Dec. 01 2003,02:30

I've found this method to work (thx from dellboy for the framebuffer tip):

1) If you are booting from CD, then the boot parameter 'fb800x600' should get the job done

2) If you're booting from HDD, you don't get to manually enter a parameter, to set the system to do this, you have to edit the lilo.conf file. Find the line 'vga=<somenumber>'. Change <somenumber> to whatever mode you feel comfortable with below:

Use the Non-Hex Numbers, I have included a conversion chart.
Colours 640x400 640x480 800x600 1024x768 1152x864 1280x1024 1600x1200
--------+--------------------------------------------------------------
4 bits | ? ? 0x302 ? ? ? ?
8 bits | 0x300 0x301 0x303 0x305 0x161 0x307 0x31C
15 bits | ? 0x310 0x313 0x316 0x162 0x319 0x31D
16 bits | ? 0x311 0x314 0x317 0x163 0x31A 0x31E
24 bits | ? 0x312 0x315 0x318 ? 0x31B 0x31F
32 bits | ? ? ? ? 0x164 ? ?
0x300 = 768
0x301 = 769
0x302 = 770
0x303 = 771
0x305 = 773
0x307 = 775
0x310 = 784
0x311 = 785
0x312 = 786
0x313 = 787
0x314 = 788
0x315 = 789
0x316 = 790
0x317 = 791
0x318 = 792
0x319 = 793
0x31A = 794
0x31B = 795
0x31C = 796
0x31D = 797
0x31E = 798
ox31F = 799
0x161 = 353
0x162 = 354
0x163 = 355
0x164 = 356

Save the file, and at the prompt run 'lilo' then reboot and all should be well

To reset back to normal change the 'vga=<number>' to 'vga=normal'.

Posted by ursixc9 on Dec. 08 2003,06:40

Thanks man, I fixed my problem! Now, do you know how to configure the sound card?? I can't get my sound card to work. It said soundcard:unknown driver=ad8484....... =)

Posted by Crotalus on Dec. 09 2003,05:06

Heh, Glad my research could help someone!
Sorry but I can't help you with sound, altough I am in the same boat =/ Anyway, My little laptop has a Sound Blaster Compatible so I'm going to try downloading an ALSA (Advanced Linux Sound Architecture) debian binary (.deb) to a cd, because the laptop isn't internet capable right now, and install ALSA. I'll let you know how everything goes and if you find anything about fixing sound within DSL then plz share!