On Sun, 28 Oct 2001 14:54:45 -0500, you wrote: >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
Thanks, that sounds exactly what I'm looking for, I'll have a look. The installation, incidentally, was done using just the three "compact" floppies (compact-pre17 kernel). Could this be related to the fb issue? What does "pre17" mean anyway? Is there a quick and easy method for getting a color ls command? (Sorry for sneeaking a couple of extras in here ;o) Thanks again. H
