On Wed, 2002-01-02 at 10:38, Zach Forrest wrote:
> When passing "vga=extended" as a parameter during boot-up, the following 
> code in /etc/init.d/bootmisc seems to reset the console to "vga=normal".
> 
> if [ -c /dev/ttyp0 ]
> then
>      chmod 666 /dev/tty[p-za-e][0-9a-f]
>      chown root:tty /dev/tty[p-za-e][0-9a-f]
> fi
> 
> Any ideas as to why?
> 
Hi

I tried it here, and that did not reset it for me.  The
setting of the console font did though.


Greetings,


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Martin Schlemmer
Gentoo Linux Developer, Desktop Team Developer
Cape Town, South Africa