Debian Well Underway

[Chuck Hallenbeck]

Steve,

On my Lenny system I have added the kernel command line option vga=791
in my grub configuration, and it gives me 128 by 48  screens.

Chuck

On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 02:31:26PM -0700, Steve Holmes wrote:
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> Well, I got Debian going pretty well now.  I got ALSA working with the
> proper order of sound cards, my network is using static address as I
> wish, and the default kernel supports NTFS so am able to read and
> write to my ntfs file system from normal users.
> 
> I do have one question that is bugging me.  I can't seem to get the
> console to go into any mode other than 25X80 mode.  Even at the boot
> prompt or in lilo.conf, I can specify vga=791 (first choice,
> vga=extended (should give me 50 lines) but no matter what, I boot and
> always get the 25 lines.  Under slackware, I got 50 lines all the time
> with vga=extended.  So I think there is something in Debian that is
> overriding me or Deb don't like my video card.  Is there something
> else I should be looking for to control this?  My biggest herdle now
> is to learn the configuration environment of Debian.  I'm used to
> editing configuration files and Debian has got these config scripts to
> simplify thing; I just need to learn them.
> 
> I appreciate the help and the help previously given me concerning the
> boot problems.
> 
> Thanks.
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