hi, I had no sucess searching for this on the internet so I came here. Well anyone knows how to use a high resolution on the console when you have the nvidia proprietary driver installed? If I use the nvidia module tha comes with the kernel tree I can choose but I can't install the other driver.
thanks.

Don't bother with the nvidia drivers. For the most part they are more trouble than they are worth. Its always seems safer and far more reliable just to stick with the VESA driver instead. This only applies to the console.

X windows is best served by the nvidia driver.

ok but how to hv high resolution like 1280x1204 on console with the nvidia installed... what I need to check on my kernel? and show the little tux.....

Heres what I set in my 2.6 kernel for this, BTW I have an nvidia card as well. Geforce 3.


Device Drivers --> Graphics Support -->

- Support For Frame Buffer Devices
- Enable Video Mode Handling Helpers
- Enable Tile Blitting Support
- VESA VGA Graphics Support
Console Display Driver Support -->
- Video Mode Selection Support
- Framebuffer Console Support
- Select Compiled In Fonts -->
- VGA 8x8 Fonts
- VGA 8x16 Fonts



That should cover it for things you need in the kernel.

In the lilo.conf you also need to set the vga line for example

"vga = 791"


I believe "795" is the code you want for 1280 x 1024 but I'm not sure. You can specify

"vga = ask"

so that lilo will prompt you for the resolution and also by that means tell you what the number for that mode is, then later you can just change lilo.conf again to reflect that specific number.

the kernel help says that the 'Enable Tile Blitting Support' is only necessari if you hv a matrox card? do you hv one or it is really necessary? and the lilo last time i used 1280x1024 was 794... but with this trouble now I'm not sure..
I'll try with this settings.. Thanks!

Not at all neccessary, I think I mostly just have it enabled just in case there is a feature of my card that is somehow non-functional due to this. But I certainly can't point to any sort of improvement or degredation otherwise by enabling it.

Also I found this table online for the vga line looks were both right



| 640x480 800x600 1024x768 1280x1024
----+--------------------------------------
256 | 769 771 773 775
32k | 784 787 790 793
64k | 785 788 791 794
16M | 786 789 792 795

well i did what you told me but I still can't enter this numbers... 791 794 795... whatever. The message is that those modes are invalid <enter> give just a lot of horrible options!! 80x60... I still don't knowing what to do...

You sure your compiled a new kernel with the options above and are booting with it? Not that I'm trying to offend with that question, I've been at this more than a decade and make dumber mistakes

Well I think I did.. make xconfig ... save ... make modules, make modules_install... and make install. I don't know what can be wrong... I'm downloading the lastest kernel mine is 2.6.13.2, I'll starts it config from zero ... lets see what I can get... I hope I hv lucky at this time..
BTW do you know if i can make a dvd of slack from the two iso?

Okay.... first off..

When compiling a 2.6.x kernel you should only need to do the following....

make xconfig, make, make modules_install

(2.6 series the "make" command now combines "make dep, make bzImage, make modules" from the 2.4 series)

Next, run following commands.

cp /usr/src/linux/.config /boot/config
cp /usr/src/linux/System.map /boot/System.map
cp /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot/bzImage /boot/vmlinuz
lilo

That should get your new kernel installed. Since it seems your at least a little new to this, heres a bit of warning.

Always have 2 bootable configs in your lilo.conf, and keep 2 kernels on hand. For myself I have a kernel called "vmlinuz" and one called "vmlinuz.bak". And I have lilo able to boot either. I do that just in case I install a new kernel and it goes haywire, I can at least go back to a working kernel without having to use boot cd's and such. If my new kernel works, then I copy that kernel also to my vmlinuz.bak.

In your case.. you may want to

cp /boot/vmlinuz /boot/vmlinuz.bak

before you go off copying a new kernel in, and add entires to lilo.conf so that it can boot your old working kernel.

And yes you should be able to take 2 slack cd's and combine them into 1 DVD. For that matter you could probably do that with all 4 slack cd's.

thanks... but do you know that make install does that part of coping system.map vmlinuz.... and also updates and runs lilo? so do you think I should do just make install and make modules_install??

well I tried and it works better just make, make modules_install, and make install the last one is just to don't need to copy and lilo... thanks...

Thanks KnightHawk, the fist compiled tried probabli worked, but with the s-vhs conector plugged on video card it doesn't work... when I realize that that was the matter was too late.... (a lot of kernel compiler tries...) but now it working and this is what matter! Thank you again!