Re: video configuration issues
On Sun, Oct 28, 2001 at 09:14:17PM +0000, Harry Palmer wrote:
| On Sun, 28 Oct 2001 14:54:45 -0500, you wrote:
|
| >On Sun, Oct 28, 2001 at 07:59:29PM +0000, Harry Palmer wrote:
| >| I've just started with debian on my panasonic laptop after using
| >| slackware for a long while, and would appreciate clarification of a
| >| couple of things...
| >|
| >| lilo.conf has the entry "vga=normal" and yet a some point in the boot
| >| process I get a graphical (framebuffer?) display of 640x480 in the
| >| top-left corner of the 800x600 monitor. Where can I:
| >|
| >| a) set it to 800x600x(a decent colour depth)
| >|
| >| or better still,
| >|
| >| b) disable this nonsense and have a nice textual screen with
| >| an appropriate "vga=" entry in lilo.conf to give me better than 80x25
| >| characters? (slackware calls it "standard mode" ie non-framebuffer, I
| >| think).
| >
| >That's kinda odd, I've never seen a default install use the fb before.
| >If you install the kernel-doc package, look in
| >/usr/share/doc/kernel-doc-<version>/Documentation/fb/vesafb.txt.gz.
| >That file lists a table of the various fb modes that can be specified
| >in the vga= argument. There is an svga document somewhere in the
| >package that gives a table of the VGA text modes.
| >
| >HTH,
| >-D
|
| Thanks, that sounds exactly what I'm looking for, I'll have a look.
|
| The installation, incidentally, was done using just the three
| "compact" floppies (compact-pre17 kernel). Could this be related to
| the fb issue?
I don't know, I've only used the 'idepci' boot floppies (and whatever
is on the potato cds).
| What does "pre17" mean anyway?
It is the 17th preview release of the version. Kinda like betas.
| Is there a quick and easy method for getting a color ls command?
$ grep ls ~/.bashrc
alias ls="ls -p --color=auto"
$
-D
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