On Mon, 25 Aug 2008, Chris wrote:-

>I forgot to mention, in the article you see the hex values for the modes.
>vga= requires the base-10 number.

No it doesn't. It accepts hex and decimal mode numbers.

>I think you can use the hex value (0x317)
>but I haven't tried it.

You can, and it works. I used to use 0x317 and 0x314 as the usual modes
when installing but now use their decimal equivalents, 791 or 788, as
it's 2 characters less typing.

>I just used kalc to convert the hex to base-10. You
>can use google too if you want:
>
>http://www.google.ca/search?q=0x317+to+base+10

Or you can use the page on wikipedia, which gives the mode numbers in
decimal:




Regards,
David Bolt

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