As I found out setting up my home system, you use hex for one, and
decimal for the other (forget if it's hex for vga=ask, decimal for
lilo.con, or the reverse)
jeff
On Wed, 12 Jul 2000, Kurth Bemis wrote:
> Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2000 15:08:26 -0400
> From: Kurth Bemis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: Bill Sconce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, mike ledoux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
gnhlug <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: Console Resolution
>
> At 03:00 PM 7/12/2000 -0400, Bill Sconce wrote:
>
> at the LILO boot prompt type linux vga=ask
>
> then it will as you what resolution you want..
>
> once you find the one that you want open up lilo.conf and put it in there....
>
> like vga=6
>
> good luck :-)
>
> ~kurth
>
>
>
> >mike ledoux wrote:
> > >
> > > On Tue, 11 Jul 2000, Kurth Bemis wrote:
> > >
> > > >how do i get my console to run at a higher resolution? I saw it once on a
> > > >list that i was a member of..but i can't seem top track down that mail
> > > >right now? I'm using redhack 6.0. Any ideas?
> > >
> > > 'man SVGATextMode'
> > >
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> >
> >
> >Thanks for this thread, guys. I'd had 132x60 working on my previous Linux
> >system, but forgot the magic I'd used to set it up. It's nice to have it
> >back...
> >
> >Along the lines of "why Linux", though, it was REALLY not easy to find this
> >stuff, either the first time, or just now. The lilo "ask" routine gets you
> >"a" for the code for 132x60, but giving "a" to lilo gets "not a number".
> >(The answer seems to be to use "10". Intuitive, yes?)
> >
> >Speaking of intuitive... "man SVGATextMode" ??
> >Yup, we've got work to do for usability.
> >
> >(BTW*2: that gets "No manual entry for SVGATextMode". RH 6.0 here too.)
> >
> >-Bill
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