Re: Booting video mode

Tuomas Heino (tbittih@xgw.fi)
Wed, 10 Jun 1998 00:08:17 +0300 (EET DST)


On Tue, 9 Jun 1998, Martin Mares wrote:

> Hi,
>
> > Is it possible to boot the kernel with a SVGA board using more than 480 scanlines? It would be nice to have, say a 132x60
> > chars mode with 8x12 or bigger fonts... or maybe a lowres mode with high-quality fonts.. say 80x25 chars with 16x32 fonts..
>
> If your BIOS supports such modes, there is no problem -- just enter
> the mode number. In all other cases, feel free to use SVGATextMode instead.
>
now svgatextmode is cool... but how to make the kernel boot with a mode
that works with svgatextmode? as in some monitor/video card/user
combinations just can't handle <90Hz modes well... and the scrollback is
lost when switching the mode :(
[... btw we don't need any more ggi flood on linux-kernel before it works on 2.1.10x ;) ]
-_-
grabmode: WARNING: Please be patient. This may take a while (up to 1 minute)
"92x42" 68.641 736 744 784 960 672 674 678 711 -Hsync -Vsync font 9x16 # 63.556kHz/89.39Hz

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