Re: Linux-2.1.129..

Romano Giannetti (romano@upco.es)
Mon, 23 Nov 1998 11:36:36 +0100

On Sat, Nov 21, 1998 at 12:14:27PM +0100, Gerd Knorr wrote:
> >3)
> >And (do not kill me:) why with vga=ask and then entering 303 I have a
> >nice fb console and saying directly vga=303 at command line (or in
> >lilo) does not work?
>
> the vga=ask prompt takes hex numbers. vga=0x303 might work (hav'nt tried),
> if it does'nt use 771...

Uy, I was asleep friday... Yes, I did put append="vga=771" in lilo.
The strange thing is that if I manually boot with vga=771, voila', it
works, and otherwise it does not work. Amazing.

Romano

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