Jeffrey Cao <jcao.li...@gmail.com>: > On 2010-01-22, Nima Azarbayjany <i.adore.deb...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > I have recently installed Squeeze on my laptop and most things > > seem to work fine right now. > > > > I used to add vga=xxx to the kernel parameters line to adjust the > > console resolution but this is now deprecated as a message printed > > at the startup says. What should be passed to the kernel instead > > of, for example, vga=0x361? Let me add that I have upgraded the > > kernel to 2.6.32 from sid. > > > For the new grub, edit the file /etc/default/grub, add the > following line: > > GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="vga=xxx" > > And then run 'update-grub' to update /boot/grub/grub.cfg
Isn't it strange that we now need to `update-grub`, when having to run "lilo" was such a hardship before? That does it. I'm going back to lilo. Grumble, mumble, wtf doesn't OpenBSD ever show up in the grub* boot menu, grumble, mumble, ... Grr. -- 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 debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
