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dgrafix

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Posted: Oct. 22 2005,17:54

Ive got a neomagic chipset, on my laptop. I had to install the dsl to the hard disk using an adaptor at my friends house. Now i have the full hard disk install, but cannot find a way of accessing the lilo video setup for non vesa video. I run Xsetup.sh but it doesnt seem to save the settings (or makes no difference).

Also when dsl starts up i get a message saying you have passed an undefined mode number. Although i keep choosing 80x25 standard and again it doesnt seem to make a difference.

Please help

ShaneRay

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Posted: Oct. 22 2005,22:18

I have neomagic on my old compaq laptop.

As a boot option, add fb800x600 (or whatever resolution).

You should be able to get that when running xsetup.sh as well. Select the other option and not xvesa.

hope that helps

dgrafix

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Posted: Oct. 23 2005,00:41

Where do i edit the boot option (remember the cd is no longer an option only whats on the hdd) which system file do i edit, and what is the linux text editor called. Im used to emacs but it is not available through apt-get

dgrafix

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Posted: Oct. 23 2005,22:09

Also, does the boot loader effect the vga setup? I think i need to change the boot option from vesa to the other one. Im using Lilo does this matter?

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Posted: Oct. 24 2005,02:13

edit the append line where it says "vga=xxx", then run lilo from bash, as root.

look in the wiki for a list of vga=xxx values.

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