Leo's monitor problem revisited, hex to mode-line converter
Brian Kelsay
BLKELSAY at kcc.usda.gov
Tue Dec 9 15:27:19 CST 2003
I found this info about mode numbers on the DamnSmall Linux forums. I hope the spacing didn't get
too mess up by this useless mail program called Groupwise.
2) If you're booting from HDD, you don't get to manually enter a parameter, to set the system to do
this, you have to edit the lilo.conf file. Find the line 'vga=<somenumber>'. Change <somenumber> to
whatever mode you feel comfortable with below:
Use the Non-Hex Numbers, I have included a conversion chart.
Colours 640x400 640x480 800x600 1024x768 1152x864 1280x1024 1600x1200
--------+--------------------------------------------------------------
4 bits | ? ? 0x302 ? ? ? ?
8 bits | 0x300 0x301 0x303 0x305 0x161 0x307 0x31C
15 bits | ? 0x310 0x313 0x316 0x162 0x319 0x31D
16 bits | ? 0x311 0x314 0x317 0x163 0x31A 0x31E
24 bits | ? 0x312 0x315 0x318 ? 0x31B 0x31F
32 bits | ? ? ? ? 0x164 ? ?
0x300 = 768
0x301 = 769
0x302 = 770
0x303 = 771
0x305 = 773
0x307 = 775
0x310 = 784
0x311 = 785
0x312 = 786
0x313 = 787
0x314 = 788
0x315 = 789
0x316 = 790
0x317 = 791
0x318 = 792
0x319 = 793
0x31A = 794
0x31B = 795
0x31C = 796
0x31D = 797
0x31E = 798
ox31F = 799
0x161 = 353
0x162 = 354
0x163 = 355
0x164 = 356
Save the file, and at the prompt run 'lilo' then reboot and all should be well
To reset back to normal change the 'vga=<number>' to 'vga=normal'.
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