When I boot the system grub finishes doing its thing then kernel gives
me an invalid vga kernel option, then gives me a list of ones to choose
(none of them looking really nice).

Worked when I was running 2.6.7 :S

Does the VESA TNG driver bork this stuff up? (Can't remember if I had
vesafb-tng or the normal vesafb)

Grub:
{snip}
title=Gentoo Linux
root (hd0,0)
kernel /bzImage root=/dev/hdb1 vga=792

Kernel:
desktop ~ # gzcat /proc/config.gz | grep VGA
# CONFIG_FB_VGA16 is not set
CONFIG_VGA_CONSOLE=y
CONFIG_LOGO_LINUX_VGA16=y

desktop ~ # gzcat /proc/config.gz | grep BUFF
CONFIG_FRAMEBUFFER_CONSOLE=y

desktop linux # gzcat /proc/config.gz | grep VESA
CONFIG_FB_VESA=y
# CONFIG_FB_VESA_STD is not set
CONFIG_FB_VESA_TNG=y
CONFIG_FB_VESA_DEFAULT_MODE="640x480@60"

Malcolm wrote:

> When I boot the system grub finishes doing its thing then kernel gives
> me an invalid vga kernel option, then gives me a list of ones to choose
> (none of them looking really nice).
>
> Worked when I was running 2.6.7 :S
>
> Does the VESA TNG driver bork this stuff up? (Can't remember if I had
> vesafb-tng or the normal vesafb)

Tng surely. With tng you remove the vga= and replace it with video=.

An example which assumes that your graphics card supports ypan:
video=vesa:800x600-16@85,mtrr,ypan

Note that you can now set the refresh rate as well your mileage may vary
in this regard.

You can even compile the default screen resolution into the kernel so that
you only need to supply video=vesa.

Styvaen.

Styvaen wrote:
> Tng surely. With tng you remove the vga= and replace it with video=.
>
> An example which assumes that your graphics card supports ypan:
> video=vesa:800x600-16@85,mtrr,ypan
>
> Note that you can now set the refresh rate as well your mileage may vary
> in this regard.
>
> You can even compile the default screen resolution into the kernel so that
> you only need to supply video=vesa.
>
> Styvaen.
>

Worked like a charm, thanks