Re: Lilo and vga=791

[Wayne Topa <brittman@capital.net>]

Sridhar M.A.(mas@uomphysics.net) is reported to have said:
> I am facing a peculiar problem while booting with a kernel which has 
> framebuffer support. 
> 
> My lilo.conf is as follows:
> 
>   root=/dev/hda
>   map=/boot/map
>   install=/boot/boot-bmp.b
> 
>   bitmap=/boot/ins64a.bmp
>   bmp-colors=14,11,,15,9,0
>   bmp-table=21,287p,2,4,175p
>   bmp-timer=73,29,12,8,0
> 
>   default="deb"
>   lba32
>   prompt
>   timeout=1200
> 
>   image=/vmlinuz
>     label="deb"
>     root=/dev/hda3
>     append="vga=791"

The line should read   VGA=791 or VGA=0x317

Here is what I use
append  = "apm=on apm=power-off ide0=ata66 ide1=ata66 hdb=ide-scsi hdc=ide-scsi max_scsi_luns=1"
VGA= 0x31A
            
Per 
/usr/src/linux/Documentation/fb/vesafb.txt
and
/usr/share/doc/lilo/Manual.txt.gz

 vga=<mode>  alters the VGA mode set at startup. The values  normal ,
extended ,  ask  or a decimal number are recognized. (See also "Booting
kernel images from a file".)


:-) HTH, YMMV, HAND :-)

-- 
"Has anyone had problems with the computer accounts?"
"Yes, I don't have one."
"Okay, you can send mail to one of the tutors ..."
                -- E. D'Azevedo, Computer Science 372
_______________________________________________________