Re: [2.6.1] fbdev console: can't load vga=791 and yes vga=ask!

Zack Winkles
2004-01-27T04:05:20Z

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...