Framebuffer with nVidia

**bpark** · 05-18-2004

1. I just read the "framebuffer howto" from this forum and got it working. Because I'm using an nVidia card, I am told that I can use the rivafb instead of the vesa to do this as well. If this is true, would changing to rivafb improve anything?

2. On the following code, I have a question regarding the last line

Code:

default 0
timeout 7
splashimage=&#40;hd0,0&#41;/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz

title=Gentoo GNU/Linux 1.4 with framebuffer
root=&#40;hd0,0&#41;
kernel=&#40;hd0,0&#41;/boot/bzImage root=/dev/hda3 video=vesa&#58;ywrap,mtrr vga=0x31A

The kernel option for the video is something that is new to me. Can someone explain to me what it is and where I can find the right documentation to do the reading?[/code]

**anand** · 05-22-2004

Hmm, I was fiddling around with fb as well.
You can get something in the kernel source code docs.
i.e.
/usr/src/linux-2.4/Documentation

Something like that

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