Re: 2.6.13 breaks vga= support?

["L.V.Gandhi" <lvgandhi@gmail.com>]

On 10/9/05, a.list.address@gmail.com <a.list.address@gmail.com> wrote:

I've been using 2.6.11 with Splashy, passing "vga=791" with GRUB.  I
upgraded to 2.6.13, and now if I pass "vga=791", it boots blind, so to
speak: nothing is displayed on the screen at all, but from watching
hard disk activity I can tell it's booting.

I found this thread:

http://groups.google.com/group/fa.linux.kernel/browse_thread/thread/c56d269e6e2640d5/b3eb81312b468d39?lnk=st&q=2.6.13+vga%3D791&rnum=2&hl=en#b3eb81312b468d39

I'm far from an expert on something like this.  Do I understand this
to mean that 2.6.13 doesn't support passing VESA modes with "vga="?

I use 2.6.13 with vga. There may be something wrong in kernel config. 
see for these in kernel config
Graphics Support --->
[*] Support for frame-buffer devices
[*] VESA/VGA graphics support
Console Display Driver Support --->
[*] VGA text console
[*] Video mode selection support
[*] Frame-buffer Console Support
[*] Select compiled in fonts
[*] VGA 8x8
[*] VGA 8x16


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