Command Line Interfaces

[Janne Jokitalo]

Pete Holsberg wrote:
> NoOp pounded out the following on his or her keyboard on 10/4/2007 6:48 PM:
>> On 10/04/2007 03:23 PM, Pete Holsberg wrote:
>>> How do I use a framebuffer?
>>
>> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/FrameBuffer
> 
> Very nice (as far as it goes). There's no vga= in my menu.lst. Can I 
> assume that I do not have a frame buffer?

Not necessarily, no. As far as I understand, it's not written by default 
Ubuntu install.

I suggest you try out like that aforementioned page's final chapter 
describes. I got results by first adding "vga=ask", then booting, trying out 
different modes, choosing my favorite and then replacing "vga=ask" by 
"vga=<my_favorite_mode>", which in this instance is "vga=6".

However, it only works for a while, after a few seconds the screen returns 
to the default 80x25, for reasons I have yet to explore. :)

Just my €0.02s.


-- 
Jaska