From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from linserver.romuald.net.eu.org (linserver.romuald.net.eu.org [63.228.150.209]) by speech.braille.uwo.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id A4E5110A75 for ; Mon, 13 Oct 2008 17:56:28 -0400 (EDT) Received: (qmail 416 invoked by uid 1000); 13 Oct 2008 14:57:17 -0700 Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2008 14:57:17 -0700 From: Gregory Nowak To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." Subject: Re: Debian Well Underway Message-ID: <20081013215717.GA32766@localhost.localdomain> References: <20081013213125.GA2894@lnx3.holmesgrown.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; x-action=pgp-signed Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20081013213125.GA2894@lnx3.holmesgrown.com> X-PGP-Key: http://www.romuald.net.eu.org/pubkey.asc User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Id: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2008 21:56:29 -0000 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 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 - -- web site: http://www.romuald.net.eu.org gpg public key: http://www.romuald.net.eu.org/pubkey.asc skype: gregn1 (authorization required, add me to your contacts list first) - -- Free domains: http://www.eu.org/ or mail dns-manager@EU.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkjzxD0ACgkQ7s9z/XlyUyBWZQCfbp9/VDEOz9gs4Y7G3DPv5Wri NgwAnRqmpvRCUF767+mPzatPYAhdal2P =GTNO -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----