Re: LILO ! framebuffer

[Koba <koba@koba.com.ar>]

On Fri, 22 Aug 2003 00:01:59 -0400, 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?
>
> Paul

Edit lilo.conf and add the line:

append="video=vga16:off"

And rerun lilo.

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Koba