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On Thursday 13 October 2005 2:32 pm, Adrian Midgley wrote: > On Wed, 2005-10-12 at 19:32 +0100, Thomas Arrow wrote: > > I as usual have a problem. On my suse 9.3 install when I press Ctrl + > > Alt and F1-6 i get a screen with funny patterns on. Before I set X to > > use the nvidia drivers and before X loads I could see the console ttys > > (at least i think thats what they are called). I don't have I clue how > > to fix this as I need the nvidia drivers for playing games but having > > the console ttys would be very helpful. I can still run commands from > > these if I log in but this must all be done blindly. > > boot option > VGA= three digit string > > perhaps? Is this a laptop per-chance? Go to http://www.linux-laptop.net/ and search. If it's anything like my old Advent laptop, the three digit string is 791. http://www.dcglug.org.uk/wiki/?news/dist-reviews/mandrake/neil-laptop I'd rather you didn't have to find that by going from 000 to 790 and giving up! At the very least, that site could give you some starter values. (also note, there is no space after the equals sign: vga=791 ) -- Neil Williams ============= http://www.data-freedom.org/ http://www.nosoftwarepatents.com/ http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/
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