On Fri, 03 Nov 2000 07:37:53 Marco Fioretti wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I am very interested in having my PC booting right into
> a high resolution mode, because I have a fixed frequency
> monitor. Right now I have runlevel 5, but this means that
> I cannot work in text mode, and that if some error message
> appears during boot I never see it. I know about the Svgatext

See /var/log/dmesg, and /var/log/boot.log

> mode package, but:
> 
> 1) booting straight with a good VGA mode would give me
> readable text before than SVGATextmode could ever do,
> and would also be easier to set up, wouldn't it?

I hardocde vga=6 in /etc/lilo.conf. It gives a fine 80x60
standard mode.

> 
> 2) If this is the case, and assuming that my available mode
> are something like :
> 
>  0  0F00  80x25
>  1  0F01  80x50
>  2  0F02  80x43
>  ...........
> 
> how can I figure out which of them is OK for my monitor (of

I would try only text modes supported by standard SVGA. If you
just want space to see messages and listings, that works fine.
If you want to do graphics or many colors in console, try a
graphic mode. But text modes will work without any fb support.

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Juan Antonio Magallon Lacarta                                 #> cd /pub
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]                                     #> more beer


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