Re: Sarge nits: console resized, kernel vga parameter over-ridden, and dead keys.
s. keeling wrote:
> Hi. I have three niggling little problems I'm hoping someone can help
> me with. I'm running stock Sarge on a Dell Inspiron 4000 with
> xserver-xfree86 (ATI Rage Mobility M3 AGP 2x (rev 02)), stock kernel
> 2.6.8-2-686.
>
> - At boot, my console window is resized down to a smaller than
> full-screen box inside a black border. How can I eliminate that?
> Is this vesafb related, and what's the simplest solution for
> fixing or disabling it? Once X starts, it (correctly) takes up
> the full screen again, until I kill X.
>
I believe this is due to your vga=x parameter. More on that below.
> - Part way through the boot sequence, something in
> /etc/init.d/console.sh (I assume) overrides my kernel command line
> parameter "vga=2". How can I disable this?
>
I'm unfamiliar with the vga=2 mode. What is it supposed to be? I'm
familiar with the following modes, garnered from [0]:
| 640x480 800x600 1024x768 1280x1024
----+-------------------------------------
256 | 0x301 0x303 0x305 0x307
32k | 0x310 0x313 0x316 0x319
64k | 0x311 0x314 0x317 0x31A
16M | 0x312 0x315 0x318 0x31B
> - My "p" and "P" keypresses just blink at me in mysql-client. I
> have to use <CTRL>-v to make it accept these. The command line
> mysql-client is the only environment I've found which exhibits
> this behaviour.
>
Sorry, I can't help here.
> None of these problems existed when I was running Woody. The X FAQ
> mentioned in /var/log/XFree86.0.log has nothing on these that I can
> find, and I've so far failed to find mention of them in the list
> archives. Suggestions appreciated.
>
> Thanks.
>
>
Justin
[0]: http://lists.debian.org/debian-laptop/2003/05/msg00137.html
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