[PLUG] kernel option vga=?? for a hp pavilion ze5375

Jason Martin nsxfreddy at gmail.com
Tue Feb 13 01:12:49 UTC 2007


On 2/12/07, Carlos Konstanski <ckonstanski at pippiandcarlos.com> wrote:
> > 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.

The vesafb stuff has nothing to do with the X drivers, with the
possible exception that they occasionally conflict with each other
when both trying to access the video hardware.

Just hoping to keep you from going too far down the wrong path :-)

Jason



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