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[Cheryl Homiak]

Well, I think it may not have to do with framebuffers per se.

in the kernel configuration items, here's something you might want 
to know:
under "Device drivers" "Console display driver support" "VGA text console" 
"video mode selection support" the help says:
This enables support for text mode selection on kernel startup. If 
you want to take advantage of some high-resolution text mode your 
card's BIOS offers, but the traditional Linux utilities like 
SVGATextMode don't, you can say Y here and set the mode using the 
"vga=" option from your boot loader (lilo or loadlin) or set 
"vga=ask" which brings up a video mode menu on kernel startup. (Try 
"man bootparam" or see the documentation of your boot loader about 
how to pass options to the kernel.) 
Read the file <file:Documentation/svga.txt> for more information 
about the Video mode selection support. 
Hth.


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Cheryl

"Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also."