Hello

Film (<film@eleven.org>) wrote:

> "Andreas Janssen" <andreas.janssen@bigfoot.com> wrote
>
>> Maybe the old kernel was using the vesafb driver, which has to be
>> compiled into the kernel to work. It is not compiled into the
>> 2.4.18-1 images, so maybe this is the reason the video mode changed.
>> Maybe the new kernel does not a framebuffer driver, so you could try
>> to load one and set some high-resolution mode. The vga16 driver
>> should work on most systems, but there are also other drivers for
>> special cards, like the rivafb driver for nvidia cards.
>
> By loading the driver, do you mean select one in modconf?

Yes, or by loading it with modprobe and adding it to /etc/modules (which
is what modconf does). However, if you want to have the driver
available from the beginning, you may have to add it to the initrd.
Also call dmesg and see if it tells you anything about the mode and
driver that is used for your consoles.

best regards
Andreas Janssen

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