Humble apologies for newbie ignorance. With that said... On bootup, I simply want to boot into a text console. I've turned off gdm, and that gets rid of the graphical login. Unfortunately, it seems that I boot into a VESA framebuffer. At the console there is a penguin on the top left corner, and my text is not proportional (the bottom line of text scrolls off the bottom of the screen). I want to be able to see all the text, and kill this penguin (OK, I like animals, but not on my computer screen - reminds me of Microsoft's Clippy).
In SuSE and Mandrake, I've seen this before. It's usually due to a line in lilo.conf (or grub's menu.lst) saying "vga=771" or some other number. Setting it to "vga=normal" gets rid of it. But that doesn't work in Debian. Somewhere is a setting to turn off the VESA framebuffer so I can just boot into plain text, but I haven't been able to find it. I'll be eternally grateful to anybody who can tell me how to kill the penguin. regards, Robert Storey On 20 Dec 2002 14:48:52 -0500 Bret Comstock Waldow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've just installed Woody r1. (At least I was connected to an > apt-source on the net while installing and it downloaded a lot, > so I assume it's r1). > > I've been using Redhat 7.3 and SuSE 7.3 before that, and I've > been using framebuffer support for my console sessions (Alt-F1, > etc). > > I get my 1024x768 display (128x48 text) just fine. > > During install of Debian, there was a question about using > framebuffer for consoles, and I believe the answer was 'yes' > (whatever it was, I thought it made sense at the time). > > Now, I boot to a GUI, but my consoles are unreadable. They're > simply blank as installed. If I add "vga=791" to lilo.conf, I > get full-screen scrambled versions of some of my GUI screen. > > I don't even know where to start. Is this an X86 problem, a > Debian specific issue, what was installed to do with > "framebuffers" by Debian I might need to look at, unscrew, > uninstall, re-install? > > Any pointers would be helpful. > > Thanks in advance. > > Bret > > > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
