On Sat, Jan 20, 2001 at 12:55:30AM -0800, forrest wrote: :well, since i've completely failed to get x working beyond a messed up :640x480 res that flickers and uses really wacky colors on this :machine... is there a way to change the console resolution to somthing a :little higher? : :or someone who has a thinpad 365XD w/ an active matrix screen could :respond, and say that it works perfectly for them... here's how ;)
There's probably some magic number for vga= in /etc/lilo.conf, and (if my viao is any indication) "ask" probably won't show it as an option... Your best source of info for this and the X problem is the Linux Laptop page http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/kharker/linux-laptop/ -Jon