[Preston] Re: Goodbye cruel GUI

[Stephen]

Yea its frame buffer well I nearly sure it is, works with all the graphics
cards I have ever used, although debian doesn't use the standard vga=791 it
uses vga 791 but suse, red hat and all the other linux distro's I have used
use it. 
Here is the link with all the info 
http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Framebuffer-HOWTO-5.html
-----Original Message-----
From: preston-bounces at mailman.lug.org.uk
[mailto:preston-bounces at mailman.lug.org.uk] On Behalf Of Matthew T. Atkinson
Sent: 12 May 2005 20:24
To: Preston and Lancashire Linux User Group
Subject: Re: [Preston] Re: Goodbye cruel GUI

On Thu, 2005-05-12 at 16:46 +0100, Stephen wrote:
> What about appending vga=791 which increase the console resolution there 
> is a list of theses values on the internet somewhere.

I remember reading something similar a while ago but I thought this was
only VGA modes (not framebuffer).  If so it won't work on my laptop as
it's a PowerPC and the only way to put anything on the screen is via the
framebuffer.  I'll have a go, though, it's certainly worth a try...

bye just now,


-- 
Matthew T. Atkinson <matthew at agrip.org.uk>


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