Correct line for high resolution console!
 

Hello!

Great forum! Curently I have no linux installed. I had Slackware 8.0 but my brand new disk died and I lost it. Now I am waiting to get latest snapshot of Slack 8.1 from it's FTP. My friend will download it and send it to me. I can't wait to get it!!! :D I should get it this week.

The point of this post is that I wanna tell you how to get a high resolution console with only one single line in lilo.conf, if you have a nVidia graphical card. All you need is rivafb module installed or compiled inside the kernel itself. I was bothers when I used vga=791 to get 1024x768 console resolution, since it worked only at 60Hz and my eyes were like after smoking a joint :D. There were no documentation how rivafb works and I couldn't find this info anywhere in the internet. So I took all the bits I found and make into one single solution that actualy works. All you need to add in your lilo.conf is:

append="video=riva:1024x768-16@100"

This tells rivafb to switch into 1024x768 resolution with 16 bit colors and to work at nice 100Hz.

This has been tested with 2.4.17 and 2.4.18 kernel. The only problem is that the colors in console are little messed up. Still don't know how to fix this, but I hope the author of rivafb will fix this by himself in next version of kernel.