Re: video configuration issues
On Sun, Oct 28, 2001 at 07:59:29PM +0000, Harry Palmer wrote:
| 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).
That's kinda odd, I've never seen a default install use the fb before.
If you install the kernel-doc package, look in
/usr/share/doc/kernel-doc-<version>/Documentation/fb/vesafb.txt.gz.
That file lists a table of the various fb modes that can be specified
in the vga= argument. There is an svga document somewhere in the
package that gives a table of the VGA text modes.
HTH,
-D
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