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Quote:> This question has probably been answered before, but anyway...
> I've just started fiddling with the vesafb stuff in the 2.4.x kernels,
> and have run into a problem...
> It seems that no matter what I put into the lilo.conf
> (at the moment: vga=0x315), the console switches *back* into the very
> useless 80x30 lines, 640x480x60 Hz mode.
> Is there anyway to get this to work w/out having to use fbset ?
> fbset -g 800 600 800 600 8 -t 22272 40 24 15 9 144 12 -hsync high
> gives me exactly what I want, but it is annoying having to su, run
> that for every TTY...
> Any advice ?
> Can I put fbset somewhere in the startup sequence so that the above is
> automatically loaded ?
try useing the dec equiv number and see if it still happens
if it dose then try vga = ask
select the mode you want and if it still goes into 80x30 then I can
only guess that its a hardware issue. the dec numbers are given in the
form letter response below
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this is a form letter response i have created because
of the frequancey that this question comes up.
set vga=xxx in /etc/lilo.conf to one of the following
Colours 640x480 800x600 1024x768 1280x1024 1600x1200
--------+---------------------------------------------
256 | 769 771 773 775 796
32,768 | 784 787 790 793 797
65,536 | 785 788 791 794 798
16.8M | 786 789 792 795 799
From the Vesafb mini-HOWTO
it is also recomended that in lilo.conf you creat a duplicate
entry for use with apps that dont handle framebuffers like quake
and use vga=ask ie
image = /vmlinuz
root = /dev/hda1
label = linux
vga = 788
image = /vmlinuz
root = /dev/hda1
label = quake
vga=ask
a word on 16M colors
things like ofbis and as a result things that run under it such as zen will
not work with the 16M color mode
kick it down to 65k and they will still work
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