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Old 08-26-2008, 03:18 AM
Default Re: Display resolution for console on boot-up

Chris wrote:
> I forgot to mention, in the article you see the hex values for the modes.
> vga= requires the base-10 number. I think you can use the hex value (0x317)
> but I haven't tried it. 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


Even how interesting this all is, I still think thatthe easiest way is
to do `vga=ask`. You will then see what is possible, try them out and if
you find one, use that in menu.lst (or via YaST) to set it fixed.

houghi
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