undefined mode number at start up

Forum: X and Fluxbox
Topic: undefined mode number at start up
started by: www.thedropzone.co.nz

Posted by www.thedropzone.co.nz on Oct. 06 2003,08:11

When I boot dsl its asked for the mode to set the video how can I get around this. It waits 30 secs then goes on? Need to edit which file to make this say 1 sec?

Ciao

Posted by guest on Oct. 06 2003,12:59

same thing. p166 ru430hx (mb), s3trio 64v+ (2mb vid), 540mb samsung hdd.
when i get the above error( right after i press enter at boot), i press enter, then i choose 3 (have chosen a bunch of other modes- changes text size), hit enter, and boot resumes. this occurs w/ some other distros as well.

Posted by www.thedropzone.co.nz on Oct. 06 2003,18:19

ok worked it out. Nedit /etc/lilo.conf and the first line is a lilo option called vga. Edit this line to this vga=4 and this will or at least on mine removed this issue. Lilo is attempting to ste the resolution at boot.

Posted by bluefreak on Dec. 09 2003,14:14

just space it away... x should still run ok.

Posted by Crotalus on Dec. 09 2003,23:34

That's not wise. Use this chart to change the 'vga=' in lilo.conf

Use the Non-Hex Numbers, I have included a conversion chart.
Colours 640x400 640x480 800x600 1024x768 1152x864 1280x1024 1600x1200
--------+--------------------------------------------------------------
4 bits | ? ? 0x302 ? ? ? ?
8 bits | 0x300 0x301 0x303 0x305 0x161 0x307 0x31C
15 bits | ? 0x310 0x313 0x316 0x162 0x319 0x31D
16 bits | ? 0x311 0x314 0x317 0x163 0x31A 0x31E
24 bits | ? 0x312 0x315 0x318 ? 0x31B 0x31F
32 bits | ? ? ? ? 0x164 ? ?
0x300 = 768
0x301 = 769
0x302 = 770
0x303 = 771
0x305 = 773
0x307 = 775
0x310 = 784
0x311 = 785
0x312 = 786
0x313 = 787
0x314 = 788
0x315 = 789
0x316 = 790
0x317 = 791
0x318 = 792
0x319 = 793
0x31A = 794
0x31B = 795
0x31C = 796
0x31D = 797
0x31E = 798
ox31F = 799
0x161 = 353
0x162 = 354
0x163 = 355
0x164 = 356

Posted by ursixc9 on Dec. 10 2003,03:37

Use the above chart to change the vga=<the number> .... save lilo.conf and make sure you run lilo before reboot!!