<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html;charset=UTF-8" http-equiv="Content-Type"> <title></title> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> Janne Jokitalo pounded out the following on his or her keyboard on 10/5/2007 12:48 PM: <blockquote cite="mid:47066AE5.8040200@gmail.com" type="cite"> <pre wrap="">Pete Holsberg wrote: </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">NoOp pounded out the following on his or her keyboard on 10/4/2007 6:48 PM: </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">On 10/04/2007 03:23 PM, Pete Holsberg wrote: </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">How do I use a framebuffer? </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://wiki.ubuntu.com/FrameBuffer">https://wiki.ubuntu.com/FrameBuffer</a> </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap="">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? </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> 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". </pre> </blockquote> OK, I'll let you lnow what happens. <blockquote cite="mid:47066AE5.8040200@gmail.com" type="cite"> <pre wrap="">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. :) </pre> </blockquote> WHAT???? Then of what value is the vga= thing?>>> </body> </html>