On 4/18/05, Tim Wilson <wilson at visi.com> wrote: > Hi everyone, > > When I work on either of my Debian servers using our RaritanParagon KVM > switch, the text extends past the edge of the screen a bit and it's really > annoying. If I run Knoppix, for example, the graphical text mode that it > uses has none of those problems and looks great. I've never been able to > figure out how to configure a kernel to produce the graphical text mode. Can > anybody pass me a clue? The server is a Dell 1850, by the way. > I think that it is just a matter of getting the right refresh rate specified. In the newer (2.6) kernels you can actually specify the resolution and refresh rate right in the kernel config. If it is an older kernel you will have to pass a string to the kernel at boot time (i.e. vga=791) You can find a table of the different vga modes supported by the kernel by doing some light googling. -- Loren H. Burlingame <loren at lhb.name> GPG Key ID: 0x112DCF4F "Irony can be pretty ironic sometimes." -William Shatner (a.k.a. Buck Murdock)