Re: [OT] 4-way split screen on Dell laptop 8000

[Nori Heikkinen <nori@sccs.swarthmore.edu>]

on Wed, 11 Jun 2003 04:02:33PM -0600, Jamin W. Collins insinuated:
> On Wed, Jun 11, 2003 at 04:45:22PM -0400, Nori Heikkinen wrote:
> > on Wed, 11 Jun 2003 02:00:45PM -0600, Jamin W. Collins insinuated:
> > > On Wed, Jun 11, 2003 at 01:43:14PM -0400, Nori Heikkinen wrote:
> > > 
> > > > My main problem right now is that on the console (i haven't
> > > > even gotten X up yet), the screen is normal for the top
> > > > quarter, and then redraws itself ontop of itself beginning at
> > > > the 1-quarter, half, and 3-quarter marks.  The result is
> > > > pretty legible for the second quarter, but absolutely
> > > > illegible at the bottom.
> > > 
> > > Have you disabled the frame buffer?  
> > 
> > no -- what is that, and how would i disable it?
> 
>    http://www.netbulans.net/susefaq/framebuffer.html
>    http://www.lugod.org/mailinglists/archives/vox-tech/2003-02/msg00203.html
>    
> The above two contain conflicting information one suggests the use
> of "vga=normal" which I see you've already tried, the other suggests
> the use ov a video= line.
> 
> Based on this message from the linux-fbdev-users list, the video
> option appears to be the right one:
> 
>    http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=178052

yes, indeed!  wonderful!  by passing video=vga16:off to LILO, i've
successfully turned the framebuffer off.  woo-hoo!

so, i decide to put that in my lilo.conf ... so i do, and run lilo,
and i get the error:

Unrecognized token "video" at or above line 105 in file /etc/lilo.conf

and indeed, it's not a documented option in lilo.conf(5) ... that's so
weird!  i'm going to try recompiling the kernel without framebuffer
support, but i don't want to have to type that manually every time i
need to boot into debian (which intend to be every day!).  

what gives?

</nori>

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