On Sun, Oct 28, 2001 at 07:59:29PM +0000, Harry Palmer wrote: | I've just started with debian on my panasonic laptop after using | slackware for a long while, and would appreciate clarification of a | couple of things... | | lilo.conf has the entry "vga=normal" and yet a some point in the boot | process I get a graphical (framebuffer?) display of 640x480 in the | top-left corner of the 800x600 monitor. Where can I: | | a) set it to 800x600x(a decent colour depth) | | or better still, | | b) disable this nonsense and have a nice textual screen with | an appropriate "vga=" entry in lilo.conf to give me better than 80x25 | characters? (slackware calls it "standard mode" ie non-framebuffer, I | think).
That's kinda odd, I've never seen a default install use the fb before. If you install the kernel-doc package, look in /usr/share/doc/kernel-doc-<version>/Documentation/fb/vesafb.txt.gz. That file lists a table of the various fb modes that can be specified in the vga= argument. There is an svga document somewhere in the package that gives a table of the VGA text modes. HTH, -D
