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