Hallo all : - With 3.0r0 : - to escape from a framebuffer console my friendly Cambridge vendor gave me the tip about vga so my lilo.conf now has vga=ext (that is for 80x43; vga=normal would be right for 80x25).
>From the same source it was suggested that if that worked I build a new kernel with the framebuffer options turned off. That and my using a rescue/boot pair of floppies to start a new install before transferring to the CD set (also humbly accepting debconf to sort out the X) is all the detail I can find just now. Pat On Fri, 7 Mar 2003 21:05:31 -0000 "Craig Perry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all :) > > I just got the Debian 3.0 boxed set through the door and > thought I had nothing better to do than throw it into my > laptop. Booted from the CD, and it seemed to go straight into > a graphical install. The only thing is, it seems to be an > older X server (i.e. < 4.x) and my graphics card/bridge for > the LCD wasn't supported until XFree 4ish (I think). > > Now if I remember correctly I can get the older XFree's not > to freeze if I can get it into framebuffer mode. Reading > around the documentation etc. would suggest that this X > server is already in Framebuffer mode! Now either I've made > up the thing about getting the Xfree 3.something to work > under FB or the X server isn't in FB mode. I can disable X > and go into a text mode install by passing something like > "vga=vga16:off" and get the base install done. > > Then the problem comes when I try to reboot from my > harddrive, it goes back into a messed up X and I can't > "ctrl+alt+bksp" kill the X server or"alt+Fx" to another text > based console. I tried the rescue option from the install CD > which falls over with a kernel panic for no apparent reason. > > Then I tried to edit lilo.conf from another boot CD and run > sbin/lilo but the lilo in the debian install requires a > version of GlibC :( and my boot CD doesn't have its own lilo! > > I'm stuck! How do I get it to boot into text mode and not > graphical, I'm sure I can sort everything myself from there. > > p.s. I wonder if this is actually a graphical install at all, > because before when I had X problems, it used to freeze my > whole system and make the screen look like it was melting. > This doesn't happen, I can toggle Caps on/off etc. and the > screen doesn't freeze, instead white and blue vertical bars > make nice dancing sequences on my screen. > > Cheers, Craig. > > -- > Craig Perry > [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- personal > [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- general > [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- misc > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Scottish mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish > -- Debian GNU/Linux 3.0r0 & Sylpheed 0.7.4 are free software Free as in http://fsfeurope.org/ or http://www.fsf.org/ More at http://www.linuxhq.com & http://www.linux-on-laptops.com/ & http://www.debian.org/doc/user-manuals _______________________________________________ Scottish mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
