Laptops :: Thinkpad 760EL Issues

All the F3 key does is show the menu with the various framebuffer codes and there meanings.

You can also find them here on the "decimal" chart:

http://www.uno.edu/~adamico/banshee/files/vesafb.txt

So you need to edit your lilo.conf and add the line:

vga=xxx

where xxx is the desired mode.

Then run "lilo" to activate your changes and then reboot.

original here.