Hello to All:
I found it! On Debian Woody, the system looks for the following file:
/proc/fb
The presence of this file tells the OS that a video frame buffer is
installed. The contents of </proc/fg> contains the name of the frame
buffer. This is the contents on this sytem:
0 VGA16 VGA
The name of the frame buffer driver is generic <vga16>. A check of
<dmesg> confired that device </dev/fb0> had loaded with <vga16fb>. A
check of </var/log/daemon.log> also confirmed this.
In GRUB, the solution was to run this line first on the command line
as a check and then to put it in </boot/grub/menu.lst>:
grub> kernel /boot/grub/vmlinuz-2.4.18-bf2.4 ro root=/dev/sda9 \
video=vga16:off
And that did it! What a relief! Frame buffer <vga16> just messed-up
this console display something awful. At one point, I could not read my
typing because it was displaying below the monitors cutoff. I finally
jiggered around with <fbset -move up> several times just to read
something. I really wish Debian developers would make the frame buffer
an option during install.
Thanks to everyone who sent help messages.
Regards,
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