vga != normal + X , or: Have(cake) + Eat(cake) ?
On machines without X I like to use vga=7 in lilo.conf so as to get many chars/line in the console. On machines *with* X this (vga != normal) makes X fail pretty consistently, seemingly irrespective of hardware/kernel version/X version... so I'm wondering whether a setup like that is at all possible? Last time I checked (which is a while ago) I couldn't find any docs to clarify... This is more a point of curiosity than importance, and so I've never spent much time looking at logs or anything, to try to figure it out. Knowledge, anyone? Jon
I use vga=ext in lilo, or append="vga=0x0301", and get some more lines that way. You *do* know that which mode is vga mode 7 can change from kernel to kernel and card to card, right? (Details at /usr/src/linux/Documentation/svga.txt.) But I recommend that you go with SVGAText which is more customizable. Neither approach seems to cause any trouble starting X. For me. My experience with this has been with these cards: Matrox G200, Matrox Millennium II, ATI Xpert98 (mach64), ATI Xpert 2000 (r128) and NeoMagic NM2160. --Steve Augart Jon Clausen wrote:
On machines without X I like to use vga=7 in lilo.conf so as to get many chars/line in the console.
On machines *with* X this (vga != normal) makes X fail pretty consistently, seemingly irrespective of hardware/kernel version/X version... so I'm wondering whether a setup like that is at all possible?
Last time I checked (which is a while ago) I couldn't find any docs to clarify...
This is more a point of curiosity than importance, and so I've never spent much time looking at logs or anything, to try to figure it out.
Knowledge, anyone?
Jon
On Sunday 03 March 2002 11:25, Steven Augart wrote:
I use vga=ext in lilo, or append="vga=0x0301", and get some more lines that way.
right
You *do* know that which mode is vga mode 7 can change from kernel to kernel and card to card, right? (Details at /usr/src/linux/Documentation/svga.txt.)
didn't really... Must've been 'luck' that It's always been the same on the machines I've checked it on...
But I recommend that you go with SVGAText which is more customizable.
Thanx for the pointer.
Neither approach seems to cause any trouble starting X. For me.
Hmmm... I'll look into it, when I get some time to 'play'... Symptoms I've seen with previous attempts include: X failing to start completely, X starts but keyboard/mouse 'dead' (that is unresponsive)...
My experience with this has been with these cards: Matrox G200, Matrox Millennium II, ATI Xpert98 (mach64), ATI Xpert 2000 (r128) and NeoMagic NM2160.
O.K. I got a Millenium II in a machine with X installed, I'll try it out on that one... Thanks for the response. As I said, this isn't really important, but it'd be nice to have it working... Jon
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