On Mon, Apr 10, 2000 at 10:40:11AM -0300, Mark Small wrote:
>
> Yesterday I tried using vga=ask as a bootup option (from loadlin) and chose a
> different video mode (80x28 instead of 80x25). It looked fine when I was
> booting, but after I switched from a x (auto started with XDM) to a VT, I was
> back in standard text mode. Also, I couldn't see the bottom three
> lines of text, so the VT thought that there were 28 lines on my console. Is
> there a configuration option that I missed, or is this a problem with my X
> server?
>
> My system:
>
> Debian 2.1r5 + xfree from www.debian.org/~vincent
> Hercules Thriller 3D 4MB PCI (Rendition V2200)
> P233 MMX w/ 96MB Ram
Weird. My understanding is that once you've selected a vga mode, it
sticks. Of course, if you're running SVGATextMode, this may not be the
case. Are you?
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