Daniel B. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > However, I'd like to be able to know what text mode a card supports > the next time I buy a video card in case I don't want to use > framebuffer mode.
Find a machine with that card, boot from a live CD, give it vga=ask for a kernel boot parm, and test. I believe that offers a menu of sorts. This is non-fb mode, btw. This is how we used it before fb was invented. :-) Slackware has always had the slickest and smartest, out of the box, console display mgmt. (font choice config, and not blitzing my chosen vga= thing with something embedded somewhere in /etc/init.d/* that does `console_reset` of some sort). I'm still hunting for that in Debian. -- Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced. (*) http://blinkynet.net/comp/uip5.html Linux Counter #80292 - - http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1855.html Please, don't Cc: me. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
