Frame buffer problem solved

[bparker@spinxs.com]

Hello to All:

I found it!  On Debian Woody, the system looks for the following file:

	/proc/fb

The presence of this file tells the OS that a video frame buffer is
installed.  The contents of </proc/fg> contains the name of the frame
buffer.  This is the contents on this sytem:

	0 VGA16 VGA

The name of the frame buffer driver is generic <vga16>.  A check of
<dmesg> confired that device </dev/fb0> had loaded with <vga16fb>.  A
check of </var/log/daemon.log> also confirmed this.

In GRUB, the solution was to run this line first on the command line
as a check and then to put it in </boot/grub/menu.lst>:

	grub> kernel /boot/grub/vmlinuz-2.4.18-bf2.4 ro root=/dev/sda9 \
	video=vga16:off

And that did it!   What a relief!  Frame buffer <vga16> just messed-up
this console display something awful.  At one point, I could not read my
typing because it was displaying below the monitors cutoff.  I finally
jiggered around with <fbset -move up> several times just to read
something.  I really wish Debian developers would make the frame buffer
an option during install.

Thanks to everyone who sent help messages.

Regards,