-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 05 November 2003 06:06 pm, Alexander Schmehl wrote: > [ sending mail to the list, since it might be worth to be kept in the > archive ] > > Good morning, > > * navaja <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [031105 16:07]: > > thanks, changing to vga=791 worked... what does it do? > > You can run the Text-Console in different graphic modes. That is > called "framebuffer mode". With vga=791 you tell the framebuffer, > that you would like to run your Text-Consoles with a 1024x768 > Resolution and an colour depth of 16 Bit per Pixel. You may have > noticed, that you can display more than the usual 80 characters and > 25 lines on the text console. > > > Yours sincerely, > Alexander
I haven't found another way to get the video mode info, but if you set 'vga=ask' in lilo, you will be presented with the various choices which shows the differnt modes. Once you find the one you like you can edit lilo and put it in 'vga=xxx' - -- Greg Madden Debian GNU/Linux -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/qfTpk7rtxKWZzGsRAuMhAJ9wSL04KsU4JydKpPyhtCqrPhcv9QCfQJQ9 wZHfBH38pcZ7Y8zx5nluClI= =pmGT -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
