Hello, I am very interested in having my PC booting right into a high resolution mode, because I have a fixed frequency monitor. Right now I have runlevel 5 , but this means that I cannot work in text mode, and that if some error message appears during boot I never see it. I know about the Svgatext mode package, but:
1) booting straight with a good VGA mode would give me readable text before than SVGATextmode could ever do, and would also be easier to set up, wouldn't it? 2) If this is the case, and assuming that my available mode are something like : > > 0 0F00 80x25 > 1 0F01 80x50 > 2 0F02 80x43 ........... how can I figure out which of them is OK for my monitor (of which I have both datasheet and a perfectly working Xfree86 modeline) without risking to blow it? 3) If none of them works, and I still want high resolution VGA at boot time, what should I do? Recompile the kernel? How? 4) Last but not least: is somebody using successfully SVGAText mode with a MATROX AGP 200 and a SUN GDM1962b monitor? Could I ask you to send me your configuration file? Thanks in advance, Marco Fioretti