Hi. Don't know about Slackware, but you can have this problem in Debian
because of the console font loaded during boot. You might want to check
your startup scripts and see if you are loading a font.
Hope this helps.
Kenny
On Wed, Nov 10, 2004 at 10:17:52PM -0700, Steve Holmes wrote:
> Well, using extended works for me while the stuff is being loaded. I
> can press the numpad-period and speakup speaks "line 50 col 1 tty1"
> but right about the time the rc.d scripts finish up their thing, It
> reverts back to saying "line 25...". That's why I think something is
> getting in the way later on after the boot sequence.
>
> On Wed, Nov 10, 2004 at 01:35:59PM -0800, Ralph W. Reid wrote:
> > 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!
>
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