-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 25 February 2004 10:20, dmu2201 wrote: > Hi... > > I'm trying to install Debian on my Laptop as I have become very happy > for it on my home computer, but it seems that installing debian on a > laptop isn't such a trivial task as I first thougt. > When the Debian CD is inserted (3.0r1) and I boot my laptop the first > debian screen that appears, the one where you have to select which > kernel you have to install, everything looks fine as it is supposed to > do but when I proceed with the installation, either by just pressing > <enter> or by typing bf24 <enter>, the picture is off center, so that I > can't see the bottom 3-4 cm and the left 2-3cm of the picture, which is > very annoying during the installationsprocess... I first thought that > this was mere an installation problem, so I continued as "normal" and > got debian installed only to discover that the problem was persistent. > Can I do anything to fix my picture so that it is centered?! I'm > currently running a Redhat 8.0 so I can see that it is using the driver > sis for my graphics card and everything works fine here. > > Hope someone can help... > > Claus
This is a kind of common problem on laptops, the quick fix is to disable framebuffer at boot. Just give video=vga16:off as an option to the kernel. - -- Ole-Christian S. Hagenes -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAPNlkoNfVGYTJKyYRAhmlAJ9O0cly0x2qWMvCWkn7rAPsBrBCbwCfdkKJ PXIW00Hz7dafb3tYelieSGg= =Cj8r -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
