Thanks Andrej!!! Your solution worked. Placing the parameter: video=vga16:off
into GRUB's menu.lst file (or lilo.conf for anyone who still runs lilo) gets rid of that nasty framebuffer console. My console is now just text - no more penguins floating around the screen. regards, Robert Storey On Sat, 21 Dec 2002 12:04:15 -0200 andrej hocevar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Dec 21, 2002 at 07:49:23PM +0800, Robert Storey wrote: > > 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). > > If this is the only problem, try playing around with fbset or > use a different driver for the framebuffer. > > > > > 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. > > Maybe video=vga16:off helps? > > andrej -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
