-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: RIPEMD160 I suppose the resistance to initrd might be the lack of full understanding on how they work and how to manipulate them. At least that is my problem. I know in concept how they work but I haven't really figured out how to easily add to them; example would be adding speakup modules to the initrd. Perhaps the kernel-package does that? not sure now. Concerning the larger screens, yes I have been passing 'vga=791' or 'vga=extended' all along with no effect. I'm using lilo for now but I have always been able to do that with Slackware with no problems. With Slack, I was able to use 'vga=extended' flawlessly. I never could get 'vga=791' to work. After installing gnome on slackware, I got the larger screen at boot time but not otherwise. I probably have a problem with display modules. I have no fb devices show in /dev. Personally, I like the integration os speakup in Debian so far; I had no problems at all with getting started using my hardware speakout. I realize software speech is all the rage and that does not occur natively with a Debian install. That may improve over time. On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 09:40:30AM +0800, Kerry Hoath wrote: > > For reasons I am unclear on people seem to be alergic to initial ramdisks > in modern Linux distributions. > > The reason initial ramdisks are used in modern distributions is so that > you can load modules required for boot devices, allow time for USB > devices to settle before using them. > > An initrd allows boot from raid and lvm, it also gives you a recovery > environment in ram that does not rely on your disk systems. > It also allows partitions to be identified by uuid which will allow > drives to change ids without the system becoming unbootable. > > I seem to recall that kernel-package expects to build initial ram disks > and unless you bypass the build machinery it might not be easy to switch > off. > Once speakup integrates more seamlessly into Debian and it's getting > better all the time then kernel package will be something worth sticking > with for speakup. > > > I doubt it is the initrd that is preventing your large screens; you need > to pass the option to the kernel as part of grub configuration and then > run update-grub to copy it through the rest of the file. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEAREDAAYFAkj+55cACgkQWSjv55S0LfHNvQCfczzDbMkmWP2gyMwkTf3k5GVU 3sMAn1ilBye1b2LVI1HN9o4mYk4jfqXJ =CzEp -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
