Re: SVGATextMode on Neomagic 256AV(NM2200) ?

[Tim Wood]

Nyk Tarr wrote:

On Wed, Oct 30, 2002 at 05:23:51PM +0800, Tim Wood wrote:

Jens Muessig wrote:

Hi,
I had the same problem with my TP600 and NM chip. Now I don't use
svgatextmode at all.
Just add a line to /etc/lilo.conf, like
vga 791
This is 1204x768, 16bpp. (see the table below)
Video Modes 640x480 800x600 1024x768 1280x1024 8 bpp (256 colors) 769 771 773 775 16 bpp (64K colors) 785 788 791 794 32 bpp (16M colors) 786 789 792 795
Don't forget to use /sbin/lilo.

Jens

Thanks for that.

I tried with 791 but got a blank screen. Waited for all the "noises" to stop, logged on blind and started X. Then changed the setting to "ask".

I selected the 80x43 and got a display that was around 120 char wide. Half way through the boot process it switched back to the standard 80x25!
More reading and thinking required I feel:)

Did you remember to uninstall svgatextmode?

I think Jens was probably using the linux framebuffer console. I have no
idea if this is in the stock kernel, but I'd guess not.

Rolling your own kernel isn't too tricky, using kernel-package should be safer...

What a good point!.
No, I had not removed svgatextmode and realised as soon as I read your response that that would be the cause. Svgatextmode would have loaded, in it's default 80x25 mode, hence switched the previous setting.

I removed it, rebooted, selected the 80x43 (selection 2 on this machine) and it remained in the selected mode. It is indeed 80x43 but in quite a good character size.

Thanks

Tim

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