Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Kernel setting for frame buffer (2.6.23-r5)

[Etaoin Shrdlu <shrdlu@unlimitedmail.org>]

On Wednesday 9 January 2008, reader@newsguy.com wrote:

> By the way about the vga= setting.  I grabbed a chart from some where
> long ago showing the notation I was using:
>
>  ##    640x480   800x600 1024x768 1280x1024
>  ##   256 0x301   0x303   0x305    0x307
>  ##   32k 0x310   0x313   0x316    0x319
>  ##   64k 0x311   0x314   0x317    0x31A
>  ##   16M 0x312   0x315   0x318    0x31B

That is correct. You can use the hex values in the config.

> do you know of a chart that shows the decimal notation like you
> posted? (Its not in `man vga')

No, I just did the math :-)

> And I don't recall where I got that from... where ever it was, it
> probably also has the decimal equivalents.

I think I found the vga=791 line in some ancient LILO sample config file 
(even before I started using Gentoo) and I stuck with it since then. But 
again, it does not matter whether you use hex or decimal, as long as the 
value you use is the same.
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