On Friday 01 February 2002 04:21 am, you wrote: > David Eastcott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > [...] > > > 1. on Boot Loader Panel, Advanced - selecting vga mode other than normal > > produces some incorrect result; examination of bootloader.pm shows that > > the mode values for the text settings are not all correct; with my video > > card and using vga= ask, the following are presented: > > 0f01 - 80x50 > > 0f02 - 80x43 > > 0f03 - 80x28 > > 0f05 - 80x30 <--- > > 0f06 - 80x34 <--- > > 0f07 - 80x60 <--- > > i don't understand, which one are wrong?
80x30 is 0f04, should be 0f05 80x34 is 0f05, should be 0f06 80x60 is 0f06, should be 0f07 > > [...] > > > During the boot up, the "Setting default font:" (rc.sysinit) seemed to > > cause the display to change from the wrong 80x?? to 80x30 (minimal only). > > i've not tested the weird text mode resolutions for a long time. Does the > font loading always ruin the boot chosen resolution? Yes. Also, if the associated lines in rc.sysinit are commented out, then the font is no longer chaged. I do not know what bad side effects removing the set font code will have on other aspects of the system start up or normal operation. regards Dave
