Re: [OT] 4-way split screen on Dell laptop 8000
on Wed, 11 Jun 2003 04:32:28PM -0400, Derrick 'dman' Hudson insinuated:
> On Wed, Jun 11, 2003 at 01:43:14PM -0400, Nori Heikkinen wrote:
> | My main problem right now is that on the console (i haven't even
> | gotten X up yet), the screen is normal for the top quarter, and then
> | redraws itself ontop of itself beginning at the 1-quarter, half, and
> | 3-quarter marks. The result is pretty legible for the second quarter,
> | but absolutely illegible at the bottom.
>
> | The RedHat and Windoze installs that are on other partitions of this
> | machine look fine, so it's an issue with Debian's interaction with
> | this video card.
> |
> | Has anyone run into this before, and could point me in the right
> | direction?
>
> The only thing I can think of is bad driver settings. I believe the
> installer uses the 'vga16' framebuffer driver. You could try to use
> the VGA driver instead. (try appending "vga=0" to the kernel command
> line) I use the vesafb driver (1280x1024x26) with no problems at all.
so, appending video=vga16:off works, and turns off the framebuffer.
vga=0 is a mode, which i think is analagous to vga=normal -- that is,
0 is a mode, not disabling it.
thanks,
</nori>
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