thats very odd, because fb's are so common these days. frankly i've never used a combination of framebuffer and lilo, i am a grubby myself.
i'm sure i've seen append="vga=788" in lilo configs before though. there are a few patches applied by gentoo to lilo but none that i can see that realte to this (I am guessing from the patch filenames only) On Mon, 13 Sep 2004 17:09:03 +1200 Paul William <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 > > > > -- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
