[Rule] fc5 testing report

Billy Tallis wtallis at gmail.com
Fri Apr 28 04:41:42 EEST 2006


That should work, but eventually you will get tired of having to
choose the resoultion every time you boot the computer. By then, you
should know which numbers to use in place of the "ask".

Good Luck.

On 4/27/06, Franz Zahaurek <fzk at fzk.at> wrote:
> 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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