Command Line Interfaces

[Pete Holsberg]

(``-_-´´) -- Fernando has written on 10/10/2007 7:36 PM:
> On Tuesday 09 October 2007 00:13:24 Pete Holsberg wrote:
>   
>> (``-_-´´) -- Fernando has written on 10/6/2007 3:36 PM:
>>     
>>> On Thursday 04 October 2007 23:23:31 Pete Holsberg wrote:
>>> install hwinfo
>>> #sudo apt-get install hwinfo
>>>   
>>> then run it:
>>> # sudo hwinfo --framebuffer
>>>   
>>>       
>> linux [pjh] /home/pjh> sudo hwinfo --framebuffer
>> linux [pjh] /home/pjh>
>>
>>
>>     
>>> choose one of the resolutions and see the vga code for 8 bits.
>>> add it to grub. mine looks like this, for 1280x800 at 8 bits:
>>> ## additional options to use with the default boot option, but not with the
>>> ## alternatives
>>> ## e.g. defoptions=vga=791 resume=/dev/hda5
>>> # defoptions=verbose splash vga=0x0360
>>>
>>> now, save, and run:
>>> #sudo update-grub
>>> and reboot, to see the new terminal at your chosen resolution.
>>>   
>>>       
>> I guess I have no framebuffer?
>>     
>
> Have a look at https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/129910
> it seems that the most recent kernel dont have it.
>   

Martinez's computer seems to have a  framebuffer. ???

-- 
Pete Holsberg
Columbus, NJ

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, 
nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire...
-- Aristotle

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