Lilo vga modes?
I have just installed new kernel 2.4.24, but I've lost the nice resolution on the character console. Now it boots at 80x25 text screen. What options should I give to lilo.conf in order to have the nice booting screen characters with the small penguin on the upper left side??
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Try vga=769 or vga=788. 'vga=ask' will give you a list of choices.
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"What options should I give to lilo.conf in order to have the nice booting screen characters with the small penguin on the upper left side??"
Set the vga= parameter to the VESA resolution that you want. The following vga numbers are all 256 colors which is plenty for the boot screen. 640x480 vga=769 800x600 vga=771 1024x768 vga=773 1280x1024 vga=775 1600x1200 vga=796 ___________________________________ Be prepared. Create a LifeBoat CD. http://users.rcn.com/srstites/LifeBo...home.page.html Steve Stites |
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do u know where i can find all these settings? If i want to change the refresh rate in the console? Is that possible/?
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"do u know where i can find all these settings?"
Here is the entire table. The reply script messed up the spacing a little but it is still readable. The vga modes are: hex: | 640x480 800x600 1024x768 1280x1024 ----+------------------------------------- 256 | 0x101 0x103 0x105 0x107 32k | 0x110 0x113 0x116 0x119 64k | 0x111 0x114 0x117 0x11A 16M | 0x112 0x115 0x118 0x11B dec: | 640x480 800x600 1024x768 1280x1024 ----+------------------------------------- 256 | 257 259 261 263 32k | 272 275 278 281 64k | 273 276 279 282 16M | 274 277 280 283 VESA: Colors (depth) 640x480 800x600 1024x768 1280x1024 1600x1200 ---------------+-------+-------+--------+---------+--------- 256 ( 8 bit)| 769 771 773 775 796 32,768 (15 bit)| 784 787 790 793 797 65,536 (16 bit)| 785 788 791 794 798 16.8M (24 bit)| 786 789 792 795 799 "If i want to change the refresh rate in the console? Is that possible/?" You can change the refresh rate in X Window by changing /etc/XF86Config. I do not know if you can change the refresh rate for the command line other than the vga= parameter at boot. ___________________________________ Be prepared. Create a LifeBoat CD. http://users.rcn.com/srstites/LifeBo...home.page.html Steve Stites |
Can this informative table be displayed in linux via man pages or any other means? I tried man vga and of cos that doesn't work :)
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How about: grep "|" /usr/src/linux/Documentation/fb/vesafb.txt
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I don't have vesafb.txt anywhere on my system.
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You need the kernel source for that file. Did you try the svgamodes command?
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I don't have the svgamodes command anywhere in my system either...
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Oops, sorry. The svgamodes comes from knoppix-kudzu on my kanotix sid install. Guess it's easiest to google the table unless you install a kernel source.
Anyway, here's what the first command returns: ~# grep "|" /usr/src/linux/Documentation/fb/vesafb.txt | 640x480 800x600 1024x768 1280x1024 256 | 0x101 0x103 0x105 0x107 32k | 0x110 0x113 0x116 0x119 64k | 0x111 0x114 0x117 0x11A 16M | 0x112 0x115 0x118 0x11B | 640x480 800x600 1024x768 1280x1024 256 | 0x301 0x303 0x305 0x307 32k | 0x310 0x313 0x316 0x319 64k | 0x311 0x314 0x317 0x31A 16M | 0x312 0x315 0x318 0x31B |
does this work for grub too?
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Yeah. It's a kernel thing, independent of the bootloader. As long as the bootloader can pass parameters to the kernel it should work.
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I to had the same problem and I solved it by adding vga = 769 in grub.config file
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