On Wed, Feb 21, 2001 at 05:08:03PM +0100, Russell Coker wrote: > On Monday 19 February 2001 17:20, Jacob Meuser wrote: > > On Mon, Feb 19, 2001 at 10:24:06PM +0100, Russell Coker wrote: > > > I compiled a kernel with VESA frame-buffer support and put "vga=788" in > > > /etc/lilo.conf > > > > In my experience vga=788 works for Mandrake/RedHat, but not Debian. I use > > vga=0x314 for 800x600x16bpp with Debian. > > The following is from /usr/src/linux/Documentation/fb/vesafb.txt: > 1. Note: LILO cannot handle hex, for booting directly with > "vga=mode-number" you have to transform the numbers to decimal. > 2. Note: Some newer versions of LILO appear to work with those hex values, > if you set the 0x in front of the numbers. > > AFAIK there has not been a time when Debian didn't work with vga=788, I have > been doing things that way for quite a long time. > > Using decimal might be best for compatibility. But it is more conveniant to > just copy the hex numbers from the documentation without converting them. > > --
Like I said, in my experience. I must have had something else wrong, because I just tried 788 and it worked. I misread the docs. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
