Colors 640x480 800x600 1024x768 1280x1024 1600x1200
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256 | 769 771 773 775 796
32,768 | 784 787 790 793 797
65,536 | 785 788 791 794 798
16.8M | 786 789 792 795 799
OK, I changed vga=791 to vga=normal in lilo on my knoppix-installed as debian box. This got rid of the boot errors. My Dell Optiplex GX270 has the onboard intel video chip (i810). When in WIMxP, I can get 16bit (65536 colors) and 24bit (16.8 million colors) color depth at 800x600 and 1024x768 resolution. These are the only video modes available on this chip.

So, in lilo:
I tried vga=788 for 800x600x16, no joy;
I tried vga=791 for 1024x768x16, no joy;
I tried vga=789 for 800x600x24, no joy;
I tried vga=792 for 1024x768x24, no joy.

In every case I get the video boot errors back and kcontrol reports only 640x480x8. The res is low, but it looks better than 640x480 (maybe 800x600). How do I get 1024x768??

BTW, I got my res to work off the liveCD with the following cheat: vga=normal screen=1024x768 xvrefresh=60

TIA,