Hello everyone,
in the first please excuse my very bad english. I'm an old man and I've learned English in school at 1979 !
I want do uses Porteus on various old Thin Clients just for fun, i.e. to make a webradio, controll AVR and ARM controllers. For this, i only want to work in textmode with gcc, fpc and tcl.
Porteus works very well (so a great thanks to phantom).
My problem:
On machines with very old graphics-adapter everything is fine. The textmode here is 640x480. On newer ones (the graphics-adapter is ATI Radeon 7000) Porteus is switching to maximum resolution so the output on screen is very very very small!
I've checked a lot twice and twice and twice.
I'm not able to reduce the textmode output resolution on booting to textmode.
No cheatcode (like VGA=771 for 800x600) is helping me.
Is there any way to do this?
I'm using Porteus 2.1 32Bit !
Thanks for help,
JJ
(with realname called Ralph)
Cheatcode VGA=
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Cheatcode VGA=
I'm an old man, but I'm stil in learning process
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Re: Cheatcode VGA=
hi Ralph,
this is happening because KMS from radeon driver takes priority over vesa.
please try 'video=800x600' cheatcode or combination of 'nomodeset vga=771' and stick to which ever works better for you.
this is happening because KMS from radeon driver takes priority over vesa.
please try 'video=800x600' cheatcode or combination of 'nomodeset vga=771' and stick to which ever works better for you.
Please add [Solved] to your thread title if the solution was found.
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Re: Cheatcode VGA=
Hi Fantom,
video=800x600 or video=640x480 works great.
I've searched for weeks about the solution to my problem !!!! I must lough about myself: I've better asked earlier.
However: Thanks a lot, you've made my day !
Greetings,
Ralph
video=800x600 or video=640x480 works great.
I've searched for weeks about the solution to my problem !!!! I must lough about myself: I've better asked earlier.
However: Thanks a lot, you've made my day !
Greetings,
Ralph
I'm an old man, but I'm stil in learning process