Re: Debian Well Underway

[Gregory Nowak <greg@romuald.net.eu.org>]

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On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 02:31:26PM -0700, Steve Holmes wrote:
> I do have one question that is bugging me.  I can't seem to get the
> console to go into any mode other than 25X80 mode.  Even at the boot
> prompt or in lilo.conf, I can specify vga=791 (first choice,
> vga=extended (should give me 50 lines) but no matter what, I boot and
> always get the 25 lines.  Under slackware, I got 50 lines all the time
> with vga=extended.  So I think there is something in Debian that is
> overriding me or Deb don't like my video card.  Is there something
> else I should be looking for to control this?

I may be wrong on this, but I seem to recall that the slackware kernel
uses a framebuffer, while the debian kernels access the video card
directly. If I'm correct here, and debian doesn't use a framebuffer,
then I think that's the problem. 

BTW, how did you solve your boot issues, was it in fact the bios, or
something else?

Greg


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