Re: How to activate VESA mode on boot-up?
Hello Frank,
> Assuming you are running a Debian kernel,
Correct, 2.26-2-686 out of the box
>> Use vga=ask for menu.
doesn't work. All I get is the list of standard VGA modes. When I type
"scan", the screen goes blang for about a minute but the system
doesn't find any additional modes.
>> So the table for the Kernel mode numbers are:
>>
>> | 640x480 800x600 1024x768 1280x1024
>> ----+-------------------------------------
>> 256 | 0x301 0x303 0x305 0x307
>> 32k | 0x310 0x313 0x316 0x319
>> 64k | 0x311 0x314 0x317 0x31A
>> 16M | 0x312 0x315 0x318 0x31B
None of these work. I mean, none.
> I usually have vga=791 (the decimal for 0x317), to use 1024x768.
Used to work fine with the -k7 kernel, it doesn't with the (newer) -686
I've been all over this, read all the docs and stuff. It's probably
time to file a bug against the kernel. Although it's strange that
exactly nobody else has this problem.
Regards,
robert
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