Comments on: Booting ‘Debian Lenny’ into widescreen framebuffer http://codehunk.wordpress.com/2009/07/02/booting-debian-lenny-into-widescreen-framebuffer/ the way i see it....... Mon, 18 Feb 2013 06:15:50 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Beautify Boot in Debian « Oojah!Tech http://codehunk.wordpress.com/2009/07/02/booting-debian-lenny-into-widescreen-framebuffer/#comment-131 Sun, 10 Jan 2010 02:17:54 +0000 http://codehunk.wordpress.com/?p=249#comment-131 [...] I add vga=791 to the end of the kernel line in /boot/grub/menu.lst for 1024×768; However, codehunk suggests vga=865 for 1280×800 widescreen [...]

]]> By: Beautify Boot in Debian » Oojah! http://codehunk.wordpress.com/2009/07/02/booting-debian-lenny-into-widescreen-framebuffer/#comment-82 Sun, 12 Jul 2009 21:25:29 +0000 http://codehunk.wordpress.com/?p=249#comment-82 [...] I add vga=791 to the end of the kernel line in /boot/grub/menu.lst for 1024×768; However, codehunk suggests vga=865 for 1280×800 widescreen [...]

]]> By: janmejay http://codehunk.wordpress.com/2009/07/02/booting-debian-lenny-into-widescreen-framebuffer/#comment-76 Wed, 08 Jul 2009 13:59:51 +0000 http://codehunk.wordpress.com/?p=249#comment-76 I switched to vga=869 recently. 1400×900 24bit

]]> By: ambrogio http://codehunk.wordpress.com/2009/07/02/booting-debian-lenny-into-widescreen-framebuffer/#comment-75 Tue, 07 Jul 2009 22:38:48 +0000 http://codehunk.wordpress.com/?p=249#comment-75 vga=865 or vga=856?

]]> By: janmejay http://codehunk.wordpress.com/2009/07/02/booting-debian-lenny-into-widescreen-framebuffer/#comment-74 Mon, 06 Jul 2009 17:34:47 +0000 http://codehunk.wordpress.com/?p=249#comment-74 @Rok, @THD: thanks for the information, im sure it will help a lot more people.

]]> By: THD http://codehunk.wordpress.com/2009/07/02/booting-debian-lenny-into-widescreen-framebuffer/#comment-73 Mon, 06 Jul 2009 07:13:21 +0000 http://codehunk.wordpress.com/?p=249#comment-73 If you install “hwinfo”, you can find the available framebuffermodes with:
hwinfo –framebuffer

]]> By: Rok http://codehunk.wordpress.com/2009/07/02/booting-debian-lenny-into-widescreen-framebuffer/#comment-72 Mon, 06 Jul 2009 06:32:58 +0000 http://codehunk.wordpress.com/?p=249#comment-72 If u type in console:

sudo hwinfo –framebuffer

u will get all HEX codes for your (framebuffer) supported resolutions for tty-s

but of course if u are using VESA framebuffer driver then u can forget about wildscreen resolution in TTY mode, becouse wildscreen is not supported by VESA driver

]]> By: Booting ‘Debian Lenny’ into widescreen framebuffer | Debian-News.net - Your one stop for news about Debian http://codehunk.wordpress.com/2009/07/02/booting-debian-lenny-into-widescreen-framebuffer/#comment-71 Sun, 05 Jul 2009 17:42:35 +0000 http://codehunk.wordpress.com/?p=249#comment-71 [...] I have a Dell D630 Latitude(running Lenny) that i use at work. While trying to push the framebuffer size, i had to experiment a bit with numbers, because i couldn’t get ready to use values off google for widescreen framebuffers. Morehere [...]

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