Installation manual

4. 2. VESA Framebuffer 15
1200 Vertical screen resolution
—— Character Devices ——
yes Virtual terminal
yes Support for console on virtual terminal
mod Standard generic (8250/16550 and compatible UARTs) serial support
yes Unix98 PTY support
256 Maximum number of Unix98 PTYs in use (0−2048)
—— Mice ——
yes Mouse support (not serial and bus mice)
yes PS/2 mouse (aka “auxiliary device” device) support
yes /dev/nvram support
yes Enhanced Realtime Clock support
yes /dev/agpgart (AGP Support)
yes Intel 440LX/BX/GX and i815/i830M/i840/i850 support
yes Direct Rendering Manager (XFree86 DRI support)
mod ATI Radeon
—— PCMCIA character devices ——
mod PCMCIA serial device support
—— File Systems ——
yes Ext3 journalling file system support
mod DOS FAT fs support
mod MSDOS fs support
mod ISO 9660 CDROM file support
yes Microsoft Joliet CDROM extensions
yes Transparent decrompression extensions
yes /proc file system support
yes /dev/pts file system for Unix98 PYTs
yes Second extended fs support
mod UDF file system support (read only)
—— Native Language Support ——
iso8859−1 Default NLS Option
mod Codepage 437 (United States, Canada)
mod Codepage 850 (Europe)
mod Japanese charsets (Shift−JIS, EUC−JP)
mod NLS ISO 8859−1 (Latin 1; Western European Languages)
mod NLS UTF−8
—— Console Drivers ——
yes VGA text console
yes Video mode selection support
—— Frame−buffer support ——
yes Support for frame buffer devices
yes ATI Radeon display support
—— Sound ——
mod Sound card support
mod Intel ICH (i8xx) audio support
—— USB Support ——
yes Support for USB
yes UHCI Alternate Driver (JE) support
yes USB HIDBP Mouse (basic) support
—— Kernel Hacking ——
yes Kernel debugging
yes Magic SysRq key
Note: As far as we understand the Intel 82801 CAM I/O Controller Hub has neither random generator nor watch-
dog functions.
4. 2. VESA Framebuffer
First of all, we want the VESA Framebuffer for our text consoles to makeuse of our nice screen resolution. In
addition, we get a cuddly penguin boot logo at no extra cost. For this to work, we need to configure the kernel to
support the VESA Framebuffer and then set the VGA mode in /etc/lilo.conf.