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Subject: Slightly Off Topic ... Video Modes in Linux

Indeed: This is *completely* off-topic. Rather than answering this, I should work on GPC. Sorry to everybody!

My Linux system uses a originalk TSENG ET 4000 W32i Graphics Card. Entering the line vga=ask into the startup file of LILO, I get a long list of possible text modes, also mode 100x40. [...] LILO tells me that it is mode 0b, but entering vga=0b, vga=9x0b, vga=12 as replacement for vga=all does not change the mode.

My LILO shows me a list of 16-bit mode numbers, for instance 0x0f05 is 80x30. When I place "vga = 0x0f05" in my `/etc/lilo.conf' and run `lilo', I get 80x30 after the next reboot.

I encountered that YaST is changing back all modifications of X. I entered automatic startup of xearth, etc., but if I add some X applications, YAST recreates the configuration file. Is there a special filename which is executed during startup of X which contains my personal and/or system wide settings for X?

Doesn't the YaST documentation or the configuration file generated by YaST say something about that? What I mean is something equivalent to `/etc/profile.local' which is - in contrast to `/etc/profile' - not touched by YaST.

But the correct place to ask is S.u.S.E. support@suse.de who does the support for YaST and their Linux distribution.

Hope this helps,

Peter -- Peter Gerwinski, Essen, Germany, free physicist and programmer Maintainer GNU Pascal - http://home.pages.de/~GNU-Pascal/ - 1 Oct 1997 PGP key fingerprint: AC 6C 94 45 BE 28 A4 96 0E CC E9 12 47 25 82 75 Fight the SPAM! - http://maps.vix.com/