On Fri, Aug 22, 2003 at 10:39:07AM +0200, Andreas Janssen wrote: > Hello > > Paul M Foster (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > > > 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? > > Maybe you mean "vga=normal". This should turn off the framebuffer. >
Nope, sorry. Doesn't work. Edited the lilo.conf and reran lilo. No change. Paul -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
