The gentoo docs said to add the following line to lilo.conf:
append="vga=788"

When I run lilo I get the following error:
Fatal: APPEND or LITERAL may not contain "vga="

After googling I found out that an error is generated if 'vga' exists in the append="" conf option:

Changes from version 22.2 to 22.3 (19-May-2002) John Coffman
....
    - Fatal error if any of "lock", "nobd", "vga=", and "kbd=" are in an
      append= or literal= in the config file.

What is the correct way of doing this?

My version of lilo is 22.5.9

Thanks,

Paul




Nick Rout wrote:
add vga=magic number to your boot line

magic number is:
            640x480      800x600  1024x768  1280x1024   
8 bpp   769     771     773     775     
16 bpp  785     788     791     794     
32 bpp  786     789     792     795

sorry that may not format well, i took it from this page:

http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=1&chap=10


On Mon, 13 Sep 2004 16:19:06 +1200 Paul William <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:


Hi All,

I recently bought a 17" LCD monitor which has a 'native' resolution of
1280x1024. I would like my ttys/consoles to have a resolution of
1280x1024. I think it currently has a res of 640x480.

To load the framebuffer my /etc/modules contains:

<last modules loaded>
vga16fb
fbcon
</last modules loaded>

What can I do to get a res of 1280x1024?

I have an nvidia FX5200 and use the proprietary nvidia drivers. I run
Debian unstable with a Debian 2.6.0 kernel.

Thanks very much,

Paul


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