On Sun, 2009-07-05 at 21:59 +0200, Robert Latest wrote: > > Long story short, when I put "vga=ask" in grub's menu.lst, I can't > enter anything but the 80-by-something modes. I've searched the Net up > and down, have tried the 0x30... modes in hex, in decimal , with the > '0x' and without ... nothing. The kernel simply doesn't know any > additional modes (and doesn't list them. either).
Assuming you are running a Debian kernel, Quoting /usr/share/doc/linux-doc-2.6.26/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt.gz > vga= [BOOT,X86-32] Select a particular video mode > See Documentation/i386/boot.txt and > Documentation/svga.txt. > Use vga=ask for menu. > This is actually a boot loader parameter; the value is > passed to the kernel using a special protocol. The videomodes are then documented in /usr/share/doc/linux-doc-2.6.26/Documentation/fb/vesafb.txt.gz, especially: > So the table for the Kernel mode numbers are: > > | 640x480 800x600 1024x768 1280x1024 > ----+------------------------------------- > 256 | 0x301 0x303 0x305 0x307 > 32k | 0x310 0x313 0x316 0x319 > 64k | 0x311 0x314 0x317 0x31A > 16M | 0x312 0x315 0x318 0x31B I usually have vga=791 (the decimal for 0x317), to use 1024x768. Hope this helps. Franklin Note: xen dom0 doesn't support framebuffer. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
