Re: new boot-floppies

["Christian T. Steigies" <cts@debian.org>]

On Wed, Apr 19, 2000 at 06:06:20PM +0200, Michael Fedrowitz wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 19, 2000 at 10:35:39 +0200, Christian T. Steigies wrote:
> 
> > clgen users: seems the video options have changed with the 2.2 kernel, can
> > somebody sum it up and give a correct video option for use with the
> > boot-floppies?
> 
> There isn't much to sum up. :) It's simply "video=clgen:" (note the trailing
> colon), and that's it. Any further options are ignored...
thanks
 
> > I hear 640x480 is the only mode usable?
> 
> It will always boot into 640x480, but you can use fbset to switch into
> another mode.
> 
> It also seems like console is completely broken for some boards (dunno
> which). So whoever uses one of those will be out of luck, unless somebody
> with access to the hardware fixes it.
Hmm, bad. Can you make up some text explaining this? See clgen.txt in the
current boot-floppies. (The fact that only 640 works and a little intro to
fbset maybe). Thanks.

Christian