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[PATCH] intelfb: Documentation update
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Correct sample boot line and add a remark on mode setting.

Signed-off-by: Antonino Daplas <adaplas@pol.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Ph. Marek authored and Linus Torvalds committed Oct 3, 2006
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Expand Up @@ -88,12 +88,20 @@ Sample Usage

In /etc/lilo.conf, add the line:

append="video=intelfb:800x600-32@75,accel,hwcursor,vram=8"
append="video=intelfb:mode=800x600-32@75,accel,hwcursor,vram=8"

This will initialize the framebuffer to 800x600 at 32bpp and 75Hz. The
framebuffer will use 8 MB of System RAM. hw acceleration of text and cursor
will be enabled.

Remarks
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If setting this parameter doesn't work (you stay in a 80x25 text-mode),
you might need to set the "vga=<mode>" parameter too - see vesafb.txt
in this directory.


D. Module options

The module parameters are essentially similar to the kernel
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