Re: Screen problems
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On Wednesday 25 February 2004 10:20, dmu2201 wrote:
> Hi...
>
> I'm trying to install Debian on my Laptop as I have become very happy
> for it on my home computer, but it seems that installing debian on a
> laptop isn't such a trivial task as I first thougt.
> When the Debian CD is inserted (3.0r1) and I boot my laptop the first
> debian screen that appears, the one where you have to select which
> kernel you have to install, everything looks fine as it is supposed to
> do but when I proceed with the installation, either by just pressing
> <enter> or by typing bf24 <enter>, the picture is off center, so that I
> can't see the bottom 3-4 cm and the left 2-3cm of the picture, which is
> very annoying during the installationsprocess... I first thought that
> this was mere an installation problem, so I continued as "normal" and
> got debian installed only to discover that the problem was persistent.
> Can I do anything to fix my picture so that it is centered?! I'm
> currently running a Redhat 8.0 so I can see that it is using the driver
> sis for my graphics card and everything works fine here.
>
> Hope someone can help...
>
> Claus
This is a kind of common problem on laptops, the quick fix is to disable
framebuffer at boot. Just give video=vga16:off as an option to the kernel.
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Ole-Christian S. Hagenes
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