On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 9:32 AM, David Witbrodt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I reported here on 5/18/2008 that I couldn't use vga=791 with the Debian >> 2.6.25 kernel, but *could* with the 2.6.25 from kernel.org. >> >> Same issue with 2.6.26: vga=791 gets "undefined video mode". Yet it >> works fine with 2.6.26 from kernel.org, so it is clearly a Debian issue. >> >> In the 2 months that have expired noone has been able to shed light on >> this Bug#481063. >> >> Too bad. For me 2.6.26-1-686 is unusable. > > What response did you get from the Debian Kernel Team > <debian-kernel(at)lists.debian.org> ? I see that only one member of > the team responded to your bug report, so maybe another member or > some other knowledgeable subscriber to that list could be of help. > > What do you get from running 'hwinfo --framebuffer' ? The hex > equivalent of decimal 791 is 0x317 -- did you try that as well? > > > Dave Witbrodt
Actually I got the same error with the indication of a bad mode. so I paid attention to the mode tried, and it was the decimal conversion of the hex I wanted... To correct things all I needed to do was to write the mode in hex mode, for example 0x317. That worked out for me... -- Javier -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
