Debian Well Underway

[Chuck Hallenbeck]

Steve,

uname -a tells me:
Linux cq 2.6.26-1-686 #1 SMP Wed Sep 10 16:46:13 UTC 2008 i686 GNU/Linux

Straight from the archives, never touched by human hands. My
motherboard is an Intel 945G

Chuck



On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 09:17:22PM -0700, Steve Holmes wrote:
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> I sure wish I could get that.  I wonder if the kernels are different
> or if the lilo stuff isn't passing the command line parm right.  I
> wonder about the frame buffer issue.  As soon as I get through with
> the mail here, I'm gonna follow Samuel's advice and look for any
> console file s in /etc; maybe that will give me some clues.  When I
> was in gnome on slackware, I really liked the extra wide screen plus
> the 48 lines or so.
> 
> On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 07:33:14PM -0400, Chuck Hallenbeck wrote:
> > 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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My web site: http://hallenbeck.ftml.net -- my telephone: 1-518-334-9022.
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Since free markets lead directly to monopoly, oligarchy, poverty,
unemployment, and Fascism, they cannot be said to "work" in any
meaningful sense.