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Posted: Dec. 30 2006,02:00 QUOTE
for no reason my laptop seems to have changed its display mode by itself after months of satisfactory DSL usage :(. the first thing i tried was xsetup.sh, but the 800x600 @ 24bit color mode that i select from there isnt even readable.

so next i looked at the vga bootcodes (i believe they are called), and found that i need to use "vga=789" somewhere. i am using the lilo bootloader .everything looks fine when lilo is doing its thin. as soon as i log on to either the DSL or ROOT acounts it uses the modes i select from xsetup for the respective accounts.

i had a look at etc/lilo.conf (might be a different extension on the file) just to see if maybe i could stick "vga=789" there. at the top i saw  "vga=789" was already there.

pretty much what i need to know is how do i tell it to use the vga code when i have dsl already installed.

sorry if this is confusing, but i am tired of trying ti get this to work again :)
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Posted: Dec. 30 2006,02:48 QUOTE
You don't mention which type of install.
We only know that you are using lilo boot loader.
But maybe this will help
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Posted: Dec. 30 2006,05:56 QUOTE
i installed from a livecd (not sure what type that is called).

i tried adding "vga=789" to the append portion of lilo.conf, when i ran lilo it said i couldnt use "vga=", so i took that all out, but i did try adding "fb800x600",which did nothing at all.

i put DSL on a usb and (using the floppy boot trick) got it to start up. i want to upgrade to 3.2 (currently using 3.1), but i want to make sure that i can actually mke out what is on screen :). anyways, running from USB is giving me the same exact problems, no matter what boot commands i send it. and no matter what xsetup optons i choose.

this is puzzling. please help :(
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