> I recently obtained an old Toshiba T2110 laptop, which I have now
> installed RedHat Linux 5.2 on, then upgraded the kernel with
> kernel*-2.0.36-1.i386.rpm from updates.redhat.com. The spec is
> 486dx4/75 with 12M of RAM.
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> The 'monitor' on it is an 640x480x256-grayscale LCD panel, and this
> is where I became curious: On boot-up in 'vga=ask' mode, LILO
> indicates that there are SIX separate video modes available, being
> 80x25, 80x50, 80x43, 80x28, 80x34 and 80x60, all of which can be
> selected from LILO and the display is correctly set into each of
> those modes, then the kernel starts booting.
> However, part way through the boot-up sequence, the kernel switches
> the display back into 80x25 mode for some reason...
> What I would like to know is whether it's possible to change this
> behaviour? Also, if so, how?
Addendum to the above: The switch to 80x25 mode occurs as follows:
In 80x60 mode:
Q> :
Q> Checking all file systems.
Q> ----------------------------------
Q> [/sbin/fsck.ext2] fsck.ext2 -a /dev/hda2
Q> /dev/hda2: clean, 23/2784 files, 952/11088 blocks
Q> ----------------------------------
Q> Mounting local filesystems.
Switches to 80x25 mode here...
Q> Turning on user and group quotas for local filesystems
Q> Setting clock: Sat Dec 26 14:03:59 GMT 1998
Q> Enabling swap space.
Q> Initialising random number generator...
Q> :
The relevant part of /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit was...
Q> # set the console font
Q> if [ -x /sbin/setsysfont ]; then
Q> /sbin/setsysfont
Q> fi
I've now commented that block out, and the system now sticks in the
80x60 font I selected at bootup.
Pierfrancesco: Many thanks for the suggestion. Although it wasn't
correct, it pointed me in the correct direction to fix the problem.
Alan: Maybe you could point this problem out to the boys at RedHat,
and get their comments thereon?
Best wishes from Riley.
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