[Rule] fc5 testing report

Franz Zahaurek fzk at fzk.at
Thu Apr 27 23:18:39 EEST 2006


Hi Billy,

"Billy Tallis" <wtallis at gmail.com> writes:

>> [...]
>> booting.  I remeber to have seen another magic vga=791 somewhere.  But I
>> don't know what it means.
>>
>
> The 3 digit numbers correspond to the resolution and color depth of
> the framebuffer console. You can look up the options in the
> Documentation subdirectory of the kernel source, or you can use
> vga=ask to get a boot-time list of what the options are. Once you have
> found what works best for your screen, you can replace the 'ask' with
> the right number.

So I will add the vga=ask option to the kernel-lines in the grub config.
Thank you.

- Franz




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