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Re: Some more console questions.
- To: Oded Arbel <odeda-linux-il(at-nospam)betalfa.org.il>
- Subject: Re: Some more console questions.
- From: Adi Stav <stav(at-nospam)actcom.co.il>
- Date: Tue, 2 Jan 2001 20:20:27 +0200
- Cc: Linux-IL mailing list <linux-il(at-nospam)cs.huji.ac.il>
- In-Reply-To: <039001c074e6$d3d5d400$2500000a@oded>; from odeda-linux-il@betalfa.org.il on Tue, Jan 02, 2001 at 08:07:09PM +0200
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On Tue, Jan 02, 2001 at 08:07:09PM +0200, Oded Arbel wrote:
> Hi list
>
> I botched my lilo config and forgot to setup vga=788 when I upgraded my
> kernel. now I'm stuck in 25x80, and I really don't want to reboot again. I
> tried probing the man pages for a way to change my console to the extended
> vga mode, but to no avail. can you give me some pointers please ?
IIRC, the kernel changes text modes using the BIOS VESA calls, which
can only be read in protected mode (read: during boot). So I think you
can't.
The situation is probably different if you are using frame buffer.
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