On Fri, 2005-03-25 at 10:52 -0500, Paul W. Abrahams wrote:

On Thursday 24 March 2005 11:55 pm, Patrick Shanahan wrote: I'm confused. The vga setting for grub affects only text display, and would be meaningful even if X is never invoked. So how could XF86Config get involved?

Setting "vga=normal" for grub is the fallback and it works for me, but it displays the text at the lowest resolution. For a text console I'd like to do better if it's possible, since then I can see more lines on the screen.

Then change it to your liking and run mk_initrd to set it in the initrd at boot. -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998 * Only reply to the list please* "The day Microsoft makes something that doesn't suck is probably the day they start making vacuum cleaners." -Ernst Jan Plugge

* Paul W. Abrahams [03-25-05 13:06]:

So far I haven't found a vga value that (a) doesn't drive the monitor out of range and (b) gives me the smaller text size I want. Fortunately the monitor protects itself from sync values it doesn't like.

the video modes are listed: /usr/src/linux/Documentation/fb/vesafb.txt If you do not have the file, I have made a copy available: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/~pat/vesafb.txt -- Patrick Shanahan Registered Linux User #207535 http://wahoo.no-ip.org @ http://counter.li.org HOG # US1244711 Photo Album: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/gallery

On Fri, 2005-03-25 at 13:01 -0500, Paul W. Abrahams wrote:

On Friday 25 March 2005 11:26 am, Ken Schneider wrote: So far I haven't found a vga value that (a) doesn't drive the monitor out of range and (b) gives me the smaller text size I want. Fortunately the monitor protects itself from sync values it doesn't like.

By the way, it doesn't seem necessary to run mk_initrd to put the changes into effect on the next boot. I've tried just editing /boot/grub/menu.lst and rebooting, and my changes do have an effect (though not necessarily a favorable one).

run hwinfo --framebuffer That will show what the graphics card supports. I found that mk_initrd changes something in the initrd file that gets loaded at boot time which is why I recommended it. On my laptop I founf that 0x317 or 0x318 worked well (1024x768 resolution). -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998 * Only reply to the list please* "The day Microsoft makes something that doesn't suck is probably the day they start making vacuum cleaners." -Ernst Jan Plugge

On Fri, 2005-03-25 at 22:13 -0500, Paul W. Abrahams wrote:

On Friday 25 March 2005 7:27 pm, Ken Schneider wrote:

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On my laptop I founf that 0x317 or 0x318 worked well (1024x768 resolution).

One is 15-bit and the other is 16-bit, I know, but what effect does the difference have?

One is 16 bit the other is 24 bit, just the number of bit-planes (more colors). -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998 * Only reply to the list please* "The day Microsoft makes something that doesn't suck is probably the day they start making vacuum cleaners." -Ernst Jan Plugge