[ltp] SuSE 9.1 on Thinkpad, cont'd.

Eben King linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Wed, 11 Aug 2004 00:46:25 -0400 (EDT)


On Wed, 11 Aug 2004, David Gillies wrote:

> Eben King wrote:
> > I still have a few problems.
> >  
> > - the console video appears to be in800x600 or 640x480.  How can I change 
> >   it to the display's native 1024x768?
> 
> I'm assuming your using lilo. In lilo if you specify vga=791 you should 
> get 1024x768. With grub, I use vga=0x305

Thanks, either that or the framebuffer driver did the trick.  The font
doesn't change when an init script loads some font.  What is the
relationship between the mode number as specified by "vga=", and the
screen pixel size / rows & columns / character cell size?  (Just realized
I had put "vga=0x791" by accident and it worked, so the number is most
likely interpreted as hex by default.)

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