On Fri, 5 Sep 2003, Austin wrote:

> 
> On 09/05/2003 08:23:33 PM, Adam Williamson wrote:
> > Not really. You're scaling from 800x600 (that's what 788 is) on a
> > 1024x768 LCD. LCDs are really rather poor at scaling to anything other
> > than integer multiples of their native resolution, so 800x600 on a
> > 1024x768 display will generally look rather dodgy. If you change to
> > vga=791, for 1024x768, it'll look much better.
> 
> I tried that, but then I lost the bootsplash and the VC splash.

You should retain the VC splash, and you should be able to get the 
bootsplash back via /usr/share/bootslash/scripts/make-boot-splash 
/boot/initrd.img

> The whole thing is very confusing and hard to use.

Hint: use 'vgahi' next time you install, and everything will be much 
better, installation will look better, LILO will look better, bootsplash 
will look better (DrakX notices your use of vgahi and sets your bootloader 
vga line for you).

> Draksplsh seems to do  
> nothing for me.

AFAIK Draksplash isn't maintained for this release. Pity, it wasn't too 
bad for 9.1 ...

> The instructions on the wiki made my kernel crash.  It's  
> really all quite aggrivating.

Use vgahi. It will save you lots of aggravation. On most machines I 
install on I use vgahi, but there are good reasons it can't be the 
default.

Regards,
Buchan

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