Re: LILO ! framebuffer
On Fri, Aug 22, 2003 at 10:39:07AM +0200, Andreas Janssen wrote:
> Hello
>
> Paul M Foster (<paulf@quillandmouse.com>) wrote:
>
> > 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?
>
> Maybe you mean "vga=normal". This should turn off the framebuffer.
>
Nope, sorry. Doesn't work. Edited the lilo.conf and reran lilo. No
change.
Paul
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