On Fri, 5 Sep 2003, Austin wrote: > > On 09/05/2003 09:14:32 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: > > okay - see my reply to your other post, i think between that and the > > other replies in this thread I think we have it all sorted out, yeah? :) > > Yeah I understand the problem... I think I always did. I was just bringing it > up to see if it has to be done this way. Why can't drakx detect my vgahi card > and screen and use vgahi?
Because by the time DrakX can do anything (even stage1 or 2), it's too late. You can't change the framebuffer resolution (AFAIK) once you have booted (or if you can, at least not reliably). Of course, you could always ask to have all the XFree86 drivers included, then they wouldn't need to restrict us to framebuffer X, but that would balloon the size of everything, and we might as well use Knoppix (or minicd) instead. > > In fact, vgahi is not even presented as an option for syslinux. It's like > having a pretty bootsplash is a secret for linux developers only. :-) You obviously haven't used F2 at the syslinux boot screen ... but maybe the vgahi description could be moved to the F1 screen? Regards, Buchan -- |----------------Registered Linux User #182071-----------------| Buchan Milne Mechanical Engineer, Network Manager Cellphone * Work +27 82 472 2231 * +27 21 8828820x121 Stellenbosch Automotive Engineering http://www.cae.co.za GPG Key http://ranger.dnsalias.com/bgmilne.asc 1024D/60D204A7 2919 E232 5610 A038 87B1 72D6 AC92 BA50 60D2 04A7 ***************************************************************** Please click on http://www.cae.co.za/disclaimer.htm to read our e-mail disclaimer or send an e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] for a copy. *****************************************************************
