Re: Sarge nits: console resized, kernel vga parameter over-ridden, and dead keys.
Incoming from Justin Guerin:
> s. keeling wrote:
>
> > Hi. I have three niggling little problems I'm hoping someone can help
> > me with. I'm running stock Sarge on a Dell Inspiron 4000 with
> > xserver-xfree86 (ATI Rage Mobility M3 AGP 2x (rev 02)), stock kernel
> > 2.6.8-2-686.
> >
> > - At boot, my console window is resized down to a smaller than
> > full-screen box inside a black border. How can I eliminate that?
> > Is this vesafb related, and what's the simplest solution for
> > fixing or disabling it? Once X starts, it (correctly) takes up
> > the full screen again, until I kill X.
>
> I believe this is due to your vga=x parameter. More on that below.
>
> > - Part way through the boot sequence, something in
> > /etc/init.d/console.sh (I assume) overrides my kernel command line
> > parameter "vga=2". How can I disable this?
I first saw this (and learned to loath it) on SuSE I think. Shouldn't
there be some parameter in /etc/default that tells console.sh NOT to
fsck with my kernel command line?!? Why do I have a framebuffered
console?!? I never asked for that!
> I'm unfamiliar with the vga=2 mode. What is it supposed to be? I'm
With traditional, non-framebuffered, X vga=N tells the kernel to
display 80x25, or some variation thereof, like 40 lines, & etc. Try
"vga=ask".
Damn. Framebuffer was a brilliant hack that made X usable on
unsupported hardware. Now framebuffer is invoked by default,
whether it's needed or not? How do I tell it to use traditional,
non-framebuffered console? I neither need nor want framebuffered
ANYTHING.
Thanks Justin.
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