Edward Marczak wrote: ----------------->>>> Greg and I have followed this up off-list. I'm posting this to the list for the benefit of others who may be battling the same thing.
All I can tell you is what worked for me. In /etc/grub.conf, you need to pass the 'vga' parameter to the kernel. Like always, you can use 'ask' so you are asked to select a resolution at startup. For example: kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.7-10 ro root=/dev/hda2 vga=2 I also needed to edit /etc/sysconfig/i18n to change the 'SYSFONT' line. Otherwise, your vga change gets obliterated when you get the boot time message of 'Setting default font'. I changed mine to "lat0-08". Works wonders. Reboot, and now I have an 80x50 text screen. I've done this on 3 RH7.2 boxes: A Dell laptop, a dell desktop and a Compaq Desktop. Thanks to Greg for pointing me to the sysconfig directory. Hope this works for everyone, and helps at least someone. Enjoy. ----------------->>>> I'm getting ready to implement fb on a system that is missing a driver for and this is a setting that I was wondering how to set within a grub environment. So what is the entry? Is it just the vga=2 part?? Can I do something like vga=771? How would you implement ask? Probably questions that you had also... Did you do the vga thing for fb support? If so, did you config X with the fb driver? Did it work ok? _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
