HD Install :: DSL linux on a PCG-505TS sony vaio problems

NO. I am guessing the hexidecimal number 0x0115 represents the highest color depth supported so:
add 200 and you get 315 conver to decimal and you get (3x256)+(1x16)+5 = 768 + 16 + 5 = 789

So add vga=789 to that long boot string

boot: dsl ide2=0x180, 0x386 pci=off vga=789

It is interesting that 789 is in the table of well known values.
It is 800x600x24 which is what we were trying via xsetup.

Hopefully this is indeed a supported mode as reported by Xvesa querying your video.

i did that and pick 8bit color and now i can see the out line of most things but it is green and cant do much else

Then pick a lower resloution code as Juanito has suggested.

ok so i have tryed all the different modes and one of two things happend either the screen would go blnak after i inputed the boot line or it would boot and you wouldnt be able to see anything on the screen

The fact that the screen goes green sounds like the problem I have - basically, the i810 graphics share main memory but the bios does not assign this memory to the graphics properly.

If this is indeed the problem, then xfree86 will solve it partially but the full xorg or a memory allocation program will be required to fully fix things.

Maybe you could start dsl at vga resolution?

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