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Re: Lilo and vga=mode Question



On Fri, Nov 03, 2000 at 05:33:29PM +0800, ha shao wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 03, 2000 at 01:45:34AM -0600, will@serensoft.com wrote:
> > 
> > is there any way to change the console resolution after boot?
> > 
> > or are we stuck with a microso~1 - like 'windont has detected
> > that you moved your mouse; would you like to reboot now?'
> > 
> 
> fbset should do the job. But when I run fbset on my debian 2.2
> box, it said: "open /dev/fb0: no such device" but I have: 
> 
> crw--w--w-    1 root     tty       29,   0 Jul  6 01:44 /dev/fb0
> crw--w--w-    1 root     tty       29,  32 Jul  6 01:44 /dev/fb1
> crw--w--w-    1 root     tty       29,  64 Jul  6 01:44 /dev/fb2
> crw--w--w-    1 root     tty       29,  96 Jul  6 01:44 /dev/fb3
> crw--w--w-    1 root     tty       29, 128 Jul  6 01:44 /dev/fb4
> crw--w--w-    1 root     tty       29, 160 Jul  6 01:44 /dev/fb5
> crw--w--w-    1 root     tty       29, 192 Jul  6 01:44 /dev/fb6
> crw--w--w-    1 root     tty       29, 224 Jul  6 01:44 /dev/fb7
> 
> Don't know what's wrong. you might have better luck.

are you really using a framebuffer?  or just that vga text mode hack
in lilo?  

no such device means there is no device, not no device FILE.  `No such
file or directory' is != `No such device'

-- 
Ethan Benson
http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/

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