From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JCi2i-0003JB-HO for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 09 Jan 2008 21:00:56 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B8793E07FC; Wed, 9 Jan 2008 20:57:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: from dcnode-02.unlimitedmail.net (139.Red-80-26-111.staticIP.rima-tde.net [80.26.111.139]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BAADFE07D0 for ; Wed, 9 Jan 2008 20:57:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ppp.zz ([137.204.208.98]) (authenticated bits=0) by dcnode-02.unlimitedmail.net (8.14.2/8.14.0) with ESMTP id m09Kux9u011562 for ; Wed, 9 Jan 2008 21:56:59 +0100 From: Etaoin Shrdlu To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Kernel setting for frame buffer (2.6.23-r5) Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2008 22:13:42 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.7 References: <87odbu982e.fsf@newsguy.com> <200801092043.51305.shrdlu@unlimitedmail.org> <87odbun3i0.fsf@newsguy.com> In-Reply-To: <87odbun3i0.fsf@newsguy.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200801092213.42910.shrdlu@unlimitedmail.org> X-UnlimitedMail-MailScanner-From: shrdlu@unlimitedmail.org X-Spam-Status: No X-Archives-Salt: 4d8d0999-7626-4b7b-a7bc-d4da9a4e545b X-Archives-Hash: 5f69a1e42520ff12d86c728777c68046 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. -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list