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Re: Console mode - SOLVED



Patrick Wiseman wrote:

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

Yep, it returned "0 VGA16 VGA". Someone else mentioned dmesg, that
showed it too.

"video=vga16:off" worked.

> 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.

Apparently the framebuffer does its thing after lilo sets vga.

Thanks to all,
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