I tried 'vga = extended' in Slackware 9.0 with disappointing results. Using 'vga=ask' at the 'boot' prompt should present a menu of choices for video modes which work with your hardware, but this all happens before any speech support is loaded. I found by making some guesses that modes in the range 0 through 9 or so worked with my hardware--your system may offer different selections. After trying all of the modes which let the system boot (the system simply returned to the menu when I tried an out-of-range value), I settled on mode 8, which on my hardware provides 132X43 columns and rows. I then put this value in /etc/lilo.conf and ran `lilo` to make the value the default at future boot times. HTH, and have a _great_ day! On Wed, Nov 10, 2004 at 09:59:49AM -0700, Steve Holmes wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Well, to bring up this topic discussed heavily last month, I still > have an issue. I'm currently using 'vga = extended' and I still get > 25x80 screens. During this past month, I got a new machine with new > video and discovered something. Durring the loading of the kernel and > its drivers, I noticed I had 50 lines. But after the shell completed > and terminal options were set I was back to 25 lines. To get the > additional screen capacity, do I also have to change something in my > terminal options? I'm running Slackware 10.0 with the default > implimentation of terminfo and my console type is linux on all my tty > lines. I thought it strange that I had greeater capacity while > loading but then it turns off after finishing the startup. > > Any ideas? > > On Thu, Sep 16, 2004 at 01:37:08PM -0500, Cheryl Homiak wrote: > > Well, I think it may not have to do with framebuffers per se. > > > > in the kernel configuration items, here's something you might want > > to know: > > under "Device drivers" "Console display driver support" "VGA text console" > > "video mode selection support" the help says: > > This enables support for text mode selection on kernel startup. If > > you want to take advantage of some high-resolution text mode your > > card's BIOS offers, but the traditional Linux utilities like > > SVGATextMode don't, you can say Y here and set the mode using the > > "vga=" option from your boot loader (lilo or loadlin) or set > > "vga=ask" which brings up a video mode menu on kernel startup. (Try > > "man bootparam" or see the documentation of your boot loader about > > how to pass options to the kernel.) > > Read the file <file:Documentation/svga.txt> for more information > > about the Video mode selection support. > > Hth. > > > > > > -- > > Cheryl > > > > "Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also." > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Speakup mailing list > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > > > - -- > HolmesGrown Solutions > The best solutions for the best price! > http://ld.net/?holmesgrown > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQFBkkkFWSjv55S0LfERAsXUAJ9pFCi8FA/g/OkiW15u2rAic1uUUQCfc9Ga > 0ZiQ7pRyFWgTuHSZgbmva8w= > =cFzw > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- Ralph. N6BNO. Wisdom comes from central processing, not from I/O. rreid at sunset.net http://personalweb.sunset.net/~rreid Opinions herein are either mine or they are flame bait. CIRCLE RADIUS = sqrt (x ^ 2 + y ^ 2)
