I don't get this. I have a box here (ok, it's a Compaq, but we don't need
to get into that) that simply refuses to run a vesa_fb console. The
onboard video is Cirrus Logic 5436, which is known to be VESA compliant
and is know to work with the vesa_fb driver. I've also tried a couple
other cards, including an AT Mach64 and S3 ViRGE, none of them will work.
At boottime, if I pass 'vga=781' or any other mode, I get 'You have
specified an undefined mode number'. None of the VESA modes will work.
Behaviour is identical on all cards. I have upgraded to kernel 2.4.17 and
it had no effect. The only framebuffer driver enabled is vesa_fb... I also
tried the cirrus fb driver, same results.
Any one know what is causing this? Is it the BIOS in the Compaq?
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