Thanks for the response. I'll check into blacklisting the appropriate modules. I may have written the screen dimensions incorrectly. I want a 25 line, 80 characters per line screen. This is so that Dos programs display correctly in Dosemu. Specifically, Megadots (the braille production program I use) is quite confused with the current screen dimensions, or maybe it's just that the video card is in a graphics mode. ----- Original Message ----- From: David Csercsics <aarg@xxxxxxx> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Date: Tuesday, Jul 26, 2011 12:24:40 PM Subject: Re: Frame buffer question > > > That depends how the framebuffer is configured in the kernel. It's not > the boot loader that is responsible for dropping your card into graphics > mode. If you're using a modular kernel then blacklist the framebuffer > modules. If it is using the vesafb driver which usually is built into > the kernel then you are better off recompiling the kernel. You'll have > to lsmod | grep radeon to find the exact name of the module for that > video card because I don't remember what its called having never > compiled it into my kernels. Then you can put something like this in > /etc/modprobe.d/somefile.conf > blacklist radeonfborwhateverthenameofthemoduleis > > But just because I'm curious why would you actually want an 80x25 console? > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
