Re: virtual terminal not working compaq armada
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On Wednesday 05 November 2003 06:06 pm, Alexander Schmehl wrote:
> [ sending mail to the list, since it might be worth to be kept in the
> archive ]
>
> Good morning,
>
> * navaja <cantinho@myrealbox.com> [031105 16:07]:
> > thanks, changing to vga=791 worked... what does it do?
>
> You can run the Text-Console in different graphic modes. That is
> called "framebuffer mode". With vga=791 you tell the framebuffer,
> that you would like to run your Text-Consoles with a 1024x768
> Resolution and an colour depth of 16 Bit per Pixel. You may have
> noticed, that you can display more than the usual 80 characters and
> 25 lines on the text console.
>
>
> Yours sincerely,
> Alexander
I haven't found another way to get the video mode info, but if you set
'vga=ask' in lilo, you will be presented with the various choices which
shows the differnt modes. Once you find the one you like you can edit
lilo and put it in 'vga=xxx'
- --
Greg Madden
Debian GNU/Linux
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