On Tuesday 27 August 2002 02:28, Ray Olszewski wrote: > > Richard said more about the framebuffer than I know, but that is, I think, > not what you are asking about. The man page for lilo.conf includes this bit > (about the vga= parameter)-- > > If this variable is omitted, the VGA mode setting > contained in the kernel image is used. (And that is > set at compile time using the SVGA_MODE variable in > the kernel Makefile, and can later be changed with > the rdev(8) program.)
Yes vga= works that way however it has to be turned on in the kernel otherwise it wont work like it should at boottime. That option is; CONFIG_VIDEO_SELECT I think most distro's have it in thier standard included kernel. If that is the case one can define vga=xxx in lilo.conf and rerun lilo. > > From the man page for rdev, it *appears* that it can change the SVGA > setting while Linux is running if invoked as vidmode. Take a look and see > if this is what you are looking for (I didn't test it here). You might also > check if one of RH's init scripts is executing a vidmode command ... it is > certainly a candidate for your mysterious "something". Nope, vidmode AFAIK does not do that. > > > -- > -------------------------------------------"Never tell me the > odds!"-------- Ray Olszewski -- Han Solo > Palo Alto, California, USA [EMAIL PROTECTED] > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- Regards Richard [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://people.zeelandnet.nl/pa3gcu/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs
