Re: Console mode

[Patrick Wiseman <pwiseman@mindspring.com>]

You have a framebuffer device.  Confirm by doing 'cat /proc/fb'.

Mine returns

0 VESA VGA

Depending on what yours returns, you might try

video=vesa:off

or

video=vga:off

in the "append" line in /etc/lilo.conf; re-run 'lilo' of course.  The
effect of those, according to the HOWTO mentioned below, is supposed to be
just to turn off the search for the fb device, not to shut down your video
altogether!!

The principal _advantage_ of framebuffers, some say, is that beer-drinking
Tux :)  'vga=normal' in lilo.conf is _supposed_ to override the behavior
you're encountering, though, so I may be barking up the wrong tree here.

See the Framebuffer HOWTO at

http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Framebuffer-HOWTO.html

for lots more detail about framebuffer devices.

Otherwise you might have to resort to recompiling your kernel without
support for frame buffers.

Patrick

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