[PLUG] kernel option vga=?? for a hp pavilion ze5375
Carlos Konstanski
ckonstanski at pippiandcarlos.com
Tue Feb 13 00:33:34 UTC 2007
> I just laid my hands on a new (to me) laptop, on which I immediately
> installed Debian. When it boots up, the text console is limited to a
> centered box about 2/3 the size of the screen. My question is how do
> I get a text console to use the entire screen. In the past, for other
> boxes I have found a magical vga=value that did the trick for me. So
> far, that isn't doing what I expect or want. The display is a Samsung
> 1024x768 something or other with an ATI radeon video controller. Any
> clues?
>
>
> --
> Russell Senior, Secretary
> russell at personaltelco.net
I'm interested in this too. My work computer, over which I have no
control of the hardware spec, has an ATI video card. I have yet to
figure out how to get a bigger, better VGA resolution. Also, I had to
disable the kernel framebuffer support and use the proprietary ATI
driver (in gentoo portage: x11-drivers/ati-drivers) to get any openGL
acceleration.
I have not yet tried the vesafb-style VGA settings. Perhaps this is
the ticket? There's always "vga=ask", though it seems you always get
a plethora of crappy choices with that.
Another thing I cannot seem to do with my ATI video card: run multiple
X displays. Again, I haven't checked this in a while.
The proprietary ATI driver is in a module called fglrx. The card
looks like this in lspci:
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV370 5B60 [Radeon X300 (PCIE)]
Carlos Konstanski
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