Incoming from Justin Guerin: > s. keeling wrote: > > > Hi. I have three niggling little problems I'm hoping someone can help > > me with. I'm running stock Sarge on a Dell Inspiron 4000 with > > xserver-xfree86 (ATI Rage Mobility M3 AGP 2x (rev 02)), stock kernel > > 2.6.8-2-686. > > > > - At boot, my console window is resized down to a smaller than > > full-screen box inside a black border. How can I eliminate that? > > Is this vesafb related, and what's the simplest solution for > > fixing or disabling it? Once X starts, it (correctly) takes up > > the full screen again, until I kill X. > > I believe this is due to your vga=x parameter. More on that below. > > > - Part way through the boot sequence, something in > > /etc/init.d/console.sh (I assume) overrides my kernel command line > > parameter "vga=2". How can I disable this?
I first saw this (and learned to loath it) on SuSE I think. Shouldn't there be some parameter in /etc/default that tells console.sh NOT to fsck with my kernel command line?!? Why do I have a framebuffered console?!? I never asked for that! > I'm unfamiliar with the vga=2 mode. What is it supposed to be? I'm With traditional, non-framebuffered, X vga=N tells the kernel to display 80x25, or some variation thereof, like 40 lines, & etc. Try "vga=ask". Damn. Framebuffer was a brilliant hack that made X usable on unsupported hardware. Now framebuffer is invoked by default, whether it's needed or not? How do I tell it to use traditional, non-framebuffered console? I neither need nor want framebuffered ANYTHING. Thanks Justin. -- Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced. (*) http://www.spots.ab.ca/~keeling - - -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
