On Thu, 26 Oct 2000, Brice Gibson wrote:
> please explain the vga=XXX in lilo.conf. I am presently using vga=2. I
> want to use vga=791 or the like. vga=791 works fine in text mode, but
> causes the screen to "flicker" in X. What is the correlation of the
> two? what do the higher numbers i.e. 791, 792 etc. do differently than the
> values 1-6. ANy and all enlightenment is appreciated. I am using this on
> a laptop.
The low numbers use the built-in text modes of the video hardware, while
the higher numbers use the SVGA frame buffer console in graphics mode. If
you're flickering in X, you might try using the frame buffer X server, or
if you ARE using the fb server, use one that isn't. :) I don't know if
this will help or not, but it's worth a shot.
What kind of video hardware is this, anyway? The reason I ask is that, at
least on kernels up to early 2.4.0 test releases, the nVidia fb console
driver wasn't very good, and the VESA driver worked much better with
nVidia cards. Which begs the question, why bother with the
nVidia-specific driver?
Now, that driver may have improved since I tried it, so YMMV.
For more info, read /usr/src/linux/Documentation/fb/vesafb.txt (assuming
you have the kernel source installed, which I'll bet is the case). As for
your X server problem, you may also find relevant info in framebuffer.txt
in the same directory.
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Derek Martin
Senior System Administrator
Mission Critical Linux
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