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Re: disable vga mode



On 11 Dec 2002, Julien Motch wrote:

> Hi All ,
> 
> I am ruinning a debian 3.0 on a toshiba satelite laptop ( P 100 ) .
> The kernel is a 2.4 serie and boots in vga mode and only allows me to
> have a 640x480 display which causes the display to be smaller than the
> screen and disables the stretch function .

I had that problem on my toshiba laptop and I added to /etc/lilo.conf (and
re-ran lilo):

vga=0x317

If that too small you can Google around for different settings.  I think
they are listed in the Framebuffer HOWTO.  Yes, try

  http://www.linux.org/docs/ldp/howto/Framebuffer-HOWTO-5.html#ss5.3


-- 
Bill Moseley moseley@hank.org



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