[Gllug] grub on RH7.2 (2.4.7)

Bruce Richardson itsbruce at uklinux.net
Fri Mar 1 13:01:20 UTC 2002


On 3/1/02, 11:43:52 AM, Simon Stewart <sms at lateral.net> wrote regarding Re: 
[Gllug] grub on RH7.2 (2.4.7):

> OTOH, you can enable the framebuffer and use that. This is what I do,
> even if Linus doesn't recommend it), cos you can get a lovely large
> display that makes working with code a dream (loads of nice white on
> black screen real-estate!) Assuming you use the vesafb (most likely
> for a laptop) you'll need to append something like:

> video=vesa:282

Framebuffer is nice but don't use it if you have an ATI card.  ATI vesa 
bios is broken.

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Bruce

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