On Sun, 2008-12-21 at 11:55 -0500, William L. Maltby wrote:
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Time for extreme measures. At boot prompt, add to the end of the kernel line, via the grub edit facility "vga=ask", IIRC.
I can't find the kernel parameters docs on my system ATM, so this is a guess from memory. Maybe I need kernel development to get those notes?
Anyway, that should give you a list of pre-defined modes, numeric. Google before you do this and get a list of possible ones. I would pick the 1024x768 as a first try. IIRC another is 800x640. There's a 1240x1076(?) I think too.
I did a little googling. One post said that you should be able to go into BIOS setup and set a default set of values that will get you going.
Another, http://www.mepis.org/node/2992 , has a small table of the standard codes.
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