Re: LILO ! framebuffer

[Arnt Karlsen <arnt@c2i.net>]

On Fri, 22 Aug 2003 00:01:59 -0400, 
Paul M Foster <paulf@quillandmouse.com> wrote in message 
<[🔎] 20030822040159.GA3468@quillandmouse.com>:

> Installation: Debian 3.0r1, kernel 2.4.16tsc, very old video card, so
> no weird nvidia drivers or anything. This is a machine I'm converting
> over from Red Hat 6.2. I'll searched for "framebuffer" in the Debian
> User archives for the last six months, and don't see the answer to
> this question.
> 
> On boot, I'm getting the framebuffer, with the little colored Tux in
> the upper lefthand corner of the screen. I don't want that, I want
> Linux to talk directly to my video card. I've tried vga=ask and vga=0
> in Lilo, and neither works (vga=ask does indeed ask me, though). I
> thought I'd fixed this on other machines with vga=0, but it does not
> work with this one. Anyone know how to make the framebuffer and Tux go
> away?

..install wintendo.  ;-)


..seriously, you possibly want 'vga=normal'.

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