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