Re: Linux-2.1.129..

Romano Giannetti (romano@upco.es)
Mon, 23 Nov 1998 13:59:31 +0100

On Mon, Nov 23, 1998 at 12:30:09PM +0100, Lenart Gabor wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 23, 1998 at 11:36:36AM +0100, Romano Giannetti wrote:
> > > 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.
>
> Try the vga=711 line INSTEAD OF append="vga=771"
> For my friend it works ...

All right, it worked. ...what about adding this in
Documentation/svga.txt or in Documentation/fb/vesafb.txt? Just
to avoid a lot of mail when 2.2 will hit the streets...

--- linux/Documentation/fb/vesafb.txt.orig Mon Nov 23 13:54:56 1998
+++ linux/Documentation/fb/vesafb.txt Mon Nov 23 13:58:22 1998
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@
==============

Switching modes is done using the vga=... boot parameter. Read
-Documentation/svga.txt for details.
+Documentation/svga.txt for details.

You should compile in both vgacon (for text mode) and vesafb (for
graphics mode). Which of them takes over the console depends on
@@ -57,7 +57,10 @@
"bad mode number" message if something goes wrong.

Note: LILO can't handle hex, for booting directly with "vga=mode-number"
- you have to transform the numbers to decimal.
+ you have to transform the numbers to decimal.
+
+Note again: please use the vga=mode-number in /etc/lilo.conf file, and
+ NOT append="vga=mode-number".


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