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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