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when i wanna have my resolution set to 80*50, or higher, by lilo at boot time, it instantly switches back too normal mode . do i have to compile something special into the kernel? when ever i tried this befor i used to set it up like:
vga=0x030C
or
vga=ask
and it worked.
my grafics card is a gforce 4 4200
2.4.22 kernel
lilo 22.2
debian 3.0 r1
my lilo con is pretty much the same as it is set up by the installer... i just add the propper pathes to the new kernel and change vga=normal to either ask or the exact 0x02C. i cant give you a more precise answer couse i am writing this under win sicne x doesnt work yet.
i remember that under gentoo this did the trick and also with former debian installs
yo thats right. the problem is not the lilo.conf, i think.
when this line is executed at boottime the screen switches properly into the new text mode. but only for about half a second a then back into the ugly big one. so it is somehow working but... i dont know....
dunno, unless there are 2 vga entries in your lilo.conf (one near the top and one at your kernel entry) that are conflicting.....
...lame, but you never know.... sorry.
(i'd love to peek at your lilo.conf, but......
actually, you might want to do
dpkg --reconfigure xserver-xfree86
(something like that)
to reconfigure X. not sure if that would help your boot, but without X, your posibilities are reduced.
links or lynx are console web browsers which are useful for communicating without x and would let us see your lilo.conf.
so sorry man... tried, but i have to go down for tonight...early day tomorrow!
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