On Thu, 2003-12-11 at 22:15, phrostie wrote: > two things that i'm having trouble getting to work with a home built kernel is > the auto-power down and console text size. they worked flawlessly with the > default knoppix kernels, but i've never gotten them to work right. what > options set these and how should they be set? For auto-power down, look at APM or APIC options in your kernel source. You can compile them directly in the kernel, or load them as modules. I think you can only use one or the other. APM always worked for me. For console text size, I think you're referring to turning on frame bufferring. If fb is turned on in the kernel (in 2.4 it's under character or block devices I think), then in your lilo.conf file (if you use lilo) you can change the vga=normal to something like vga=791. This gives 1024x768 and 16 bit color. After editing lilo.conf, don't forget to re-run lilo. If you use grub, add a 'vga=791' to the end of the line that passes options to the kernel. Also, if in lilo you have prompting turned on (by use of the word 'prompt'), you can type in 'knoppix vga=791' (where knoppix is the name of your kernel) so that you can try out framebufferring without messing anything up. Try it once this way, then make it permanent in lilo. Jeremy -- Jeremy Turner <jeremy@linuxwebguy.com> The LinuxWebGuy
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