Comments on: Working with VESA 1.2 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2009/04/20/working-with-vesa-12/ K.Mandla's blog of Linux experiences Mon, 11 Feb 2013 18:19:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Life just isn’t fair « Motho ke motho ka botho http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2009/04/20/working-with-vesa-12/#comment-41017 Fri, 11 Dec 2009 12:30:03 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2009/04/20/working-with-vesa-12/#comment-41017 [...] hand, there are some things that I still haven’t quite gotten right — like getting ancient VESA hardware to work with modern kernel framebuffer support, or using an Xorg later than 7.3, or getting closer to configuring an ISA sound card. These things [...]

]]> By: Mulenmar http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2009/04/20/working-with-vesa-12/#comment-39384 Wed, 20 May 2009 08:06:04 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2009/04/20/working-with-vesa-12/#comment-39384 This is probably something you’ve already considered, but have you tried building a custom framebuffer-only Xserver for it? Not something I could do — yet, anyway 8~J — but if you could and show us how, it would be beyond awesome.

]]> By: An apology, and an update « Motho ke motho ka botho http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2009/04/20/working-with-vesa-12/#comment-39363 Sun, 17 May 2009 12:01:50 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2009/04/20/working-with-vesa-12/#comment-39363 [...] the exception of some sort of framebuffer image display, which this machine can’t do because it lacks the “contemporary” VESA 2.0 extensions (I believe that’s the proper terminology for it), the software is the same, the distro is the [...]

]]> By: Do more with less « Motho ke motho ka botho http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2009/04/20/working-with-vesa-12/#comment-39310 Sun, 10 May 2009 11:14:08 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2009/04/20/working-with-vesa-12/#comment-39310 [...] I hope I won’t be out of line if I point out that abandoning X on one machine, eschewing both X and the framebuffer on another, and spending a lot of time compiling on the third … seems to have had a rather [...]

]]> By: thealphanerd http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2009/04/20/working-with-vesa-12/#comment-39137 Mon, 20 Apr 2009 10:38:06 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2009/04/20/working-with-vesa-12/#comment-39137 There is also two ways for screenshots:

1. Find some way to print the terminal output on a printer, then scan it. Requires cups and sane.

2. Get xorg, and fire up an xterm session.

]]> By: thealphanerd http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2009/04/20/working-with-vesa-12/#comment-39136 Mon, 20 Apr 2009 10:31:14 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2009/04/20/working-with-vesa-12/#comment-39136 Try shrinking the screen to a smaller monitor. At least they’re not fat letters.

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