On Sun, Oct 28, 2001 at 09:14:17PM +0000, Harry Palmer wrote: | 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?
I don't know, I've only used the 'idepci' boot floppies (and whatever is on the potato cds). | What does "pre17" mean anyway? It is the 17th preview release of the version. Kinda like betas. | Is there a quick and easy method for getting a color ls command? $ grep ls ~/.bashrc alias ls="ls -p --color=auto" $ -D
