Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2004 23:06:40 -0500
From: Zack Winkles <winkie@linuxfromscratch.org>
To: Xan <DXpublica@telefonica.net>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [2.6.1] fbdev console: can't load vga=791 and yes vga=ask!
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On Tue, Jan 27, 2004 at 01:53:12AM +0100, Xan wrote:
> I don't know if it's a bug of kernel, but I can't load 2.6.1 with vga=791 in 
> LILO but yes with vga=ask.
> 
> In the previous version (2.6.0), I remember that I got vga=791. But perhaps I 
> a personal error.

You didn't mention what driver you're using, but with vesafb simply
using the values from Documentation/fb/vesafb.txt works for me.  In my
case, I pass vga=0x317.

It seems that 2.6.x is a lot more sensitive to what you pass to vga=
than was the 2.4.x series...

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