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Re: VGA/MDA, Terminals
After considering the matter some more, I have come to the conclusion that
it should be possible to force Linux consoles to come up on the monochrome
adapter using a LILO incantation to pass an explicit console to the
kernel. This should skip the SVGA probe.
X11 will not skip the probe however, and should come up on the graphics
card.
This has to be tried out, I haven't, but from what I remember in the linux
hacking sessions, the boot/load code of the kernel determines the type of
video card, and I don't remember if the LILO option overrides this or
not.
Anyway, if this does not work out of the box, it is to be considered a bug
and hacked into the kernel for the future (together with the printer
console and serial hack which allows single board machines to be debugged)
... ;)
PS: I believe that there is stuff in Dejanews on this.
Peter