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Re: Framebuffer Console ???



	Subject: Framebuffer Console ???
	Date: Mon, Oct 16, 2000 at 07:49:36PM -0400

In reply to:Christopher W. Aiken

Quoting Christopher W. Aiken(cwaiken@telerama.com):
> When I played with the RH and Slackware flavors
> of Linux, I could add the following lines to
> my lilo.conf file to get a nice looking bootup
> screen and a much better resolution on my console
> screens.
> 
> # VESA framebuffer console @ 1024x768x64k
> vga=791
> 
> Is there any way to do this in Debian 2.2?  
> The Debian lilo objects to the 791 value.
> 

As far as I know, lilo is lilo.  Anyway check the fb
directory in /usr/src/linux/Documentation.  You can use decimal or hex
numbers.  I have it working with
VGA     = 0x317

Which is hex for 791.

:-) HTH, YMMV, HAND :-)

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