Command Line Interfaces

[Pete Holsberg]

Janne Jokitalo pounded out the following on his or her keyboard on 
10/5/2007 12:48 PM:
> 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:
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>>>> 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".
>   

OK, I'll let you lnow what happens.

> 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. :)
>   

WHAT???? Then of what value is the vga= thing?>>>
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