Re: Console mode
Tom Zych, 2002-Aug-18 09:45 -0400:
> Ok, I had restored my old lilo.conf from backup, but I forgot to run
> lilo. So I did that first. It already had "vga=normal". Didn't help.
>
> I changed it to "vga=ask" and tried that. Mode 0 was 80x25, I picked
> that. No change. Tried hitting space too. No joy.
>
> Mode "a" was something ridiculous like 132x60, I tried that. It had
> teeny tiny text for maybe half a second, then went back to the 80x30
> mode. I think lilo is doing what I told it to, but some other
> program is switching to 80x30 after that. Any idea what program? How
> can I find it?
I sounds to me like the VGA16 Framebuffer is loading at boot. I have
this on one of my older laptops. It doesn't matter what you set the
textmode to with "vga=...", this get's overriden by vga16fb which
loads shortly after the text mode is set and defaults to 80x30.
If this is the case, you can use fbset to manipulate the display, or
you can remove vga16fb from the kernel so it doesn't load. To check
this, look in your /var/log/dmesg file for the vga16fb loading.
jc
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Jeff Coppock Systems Engineer
Diggin' Debian Admin and User
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