video configuration issues

[Harry Palmer <harrypalmer@blueyonder.co.uk>]

I've just started with debian on my panasonic laptop after using
slackware for a long while, and would appreciate clarification of a
couple of things...

lilo.conf has the entry "vga=normal" and yet a some point in the boot
process I get a graphical (framebuffer?) display of 640x480 in the
top-left corner of the 800x600 monitor. Where can I:

	a) set it to 800x600x(a decent colour depth)

or better still,

	b) disable this nonsense and have a nice textual screen with
an appropriate "vga=" entry in lilo.conf to give me better than 80x25
characters? (slackware calls it "standard mode" ie non-framebuffer, I
think).

I've looked through the boot scripts and can't find where this is
occuring

Many thanks for any assistance,

Harry