VGA mode not supported

[Jonas Norlander]

2008/11/22 Art Alexion <art.alexion at gmail.com>:
> On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 9:15 PM, David McGlone <d.mcglone at att.net> wrote:
>
>> I managed to get a half working X. Enough to enable the restricted
>> driver for my graphics card.
>
> Has anyone figured out a way to get the restricted modules working
> from, say, aptitude on tty3 so that I don't need to struggle "to get X
> working enough to enable the restricted driver"?
>
>

If you know the name of the package it's just to do as normal; apt-get
install packagename
else you can use apt-cache search or the search function in aptitude
to search for your driver.

/ Jonas