Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932417AbWBXS0J (ORCPT ); Fri, 24 Feb 2006 13:26:09 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932418AbWBXS0J (ORCPT ); Fri, 24 Feb 2006 13:26:09 -0500 Received: from albireo.ucw.cz ([84.242.65.108]:59013 "EHLO albireo.ucw.cz") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932417AbWBXS0I (ORCPT ); Fri, 24 Feb 2006 13:26:08 -0500 Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2006 19:26:09 +0100 From: Martin Mares To: Jan Engelhardt Cc: Asfand Yar Qazi , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Kernel 'vga=' parameter wierdness Message-ID: References: <43FC1624.8090607@qazi.f2s.com> <200602221130.13872.vda@ilport.com.ua> <43FC54B8.7070706@qazi.f2s.com> <43FC574A.4000100@qazi.f2s.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1039 Lines: 24 > >However, this would change meaning of numbers entered at the video mode > >prompt (with vga=ask), which doesn't look good. > > > Add a warning ;-) Well, the same thing can be said about the vga= parameter in LILO and GRUB :-) I think that the kernel documentation (svga.txt) is pretty clear and explicit on the meaning of the numbers and I don't see any reasons to change the behavior of the mode selector. What IMHO needs updating is the documentation on the vga parameter in LILO and GRUB docs, which doesn't explain well what's going on. Have a nice fortnight -- Martin `MJ' Mares http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~mj/ Faculty of Math and Physics, Charles University, Prague, Czech Rep., Earth "A semicolon. Another line ends in the dance of camel." -- Kabir Ahuja - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/