On Fri, 22 Aug 2003 00:01:59 -0400, Paul M Foster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Installation: Debian 3.0r1, kernel 2.4.16tsc, very old video card, so > no weird nvidia drivers or anything. This is a machine I'm converting > over from Red Hat 6.2. I'll searched for "framebuffer" in the Debian > User archives for the last six months, and don't see the answer to > this question. > > On boot, I'm getting the framebuffer, with the little colored Tux in > the upper lefthand corner of the screen. I don't want that, I want > Linux to talk directly to my video card. I've tried vga=ask and vga=0 > in Lilo, and neither works (vga=ask does indeed ask me, though). I > thought I'd fixed this on other machines with vga=0, but it does not > work with this one. Anyone know how to make the framebuffer and Tux go > away? ..install wintendo. ;-) ..seriously, you possibly want 'vga=normal'. -- ..med vennlig hilsen = with Kind Regards from Arnt... ;-) ...with a number of polar bear hunters in his ancestry... Scenarios always come in sets of three: best case, worst case, and just in case. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
