Acer Travelmate 230 + Intel 82845G: console framebuffer

From: Rich Churcher (rmch_at_xtra.co.nz)
Date: 07/09/03 

Date: Wed, 9 Jul 2003 11:41:05 +1200

The problem:

Installing Debian on someone else's laptop, an Acer Travelmate 230 which
apparently has an Intel 82845G chipset graphics card. He doesn't need X, or
anything fancy--just needs a console linux install for a training course.

Unfortunately, everything (console, dselect, etc.) displays in a horrible
interlaced framebuffer mode, part of which is not visible (off the edge of
the screen).

What I've tried:

vga=ask and vga=normal in lilo.conf, neither had any useful effect.

I've never seen this happen before, and I'm hoping I don't have to do a
kernel recompile or add drivers. Isn't there a way to get a nice, simple,
non-interlaced console here? I was really going for a minimal install,
don't want to spend too much time on this. 

--
Cheers,
Rich.

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