AB's Useful Box - Linux Lilo vga table

In the Linux lilo.conf file some times can be found "vga=xxx" where 'xxx' is a number like 773. It was a little difficult to locate what the settings where for '773' and where there any others.

This search started when during an installation of Linux it would correctly auto detect the Philips 105S monitor, but set the wrong screen resolution, and so when X start it would use a resolution/frequency well outside that displayable on that monitor, in turn, because the monitor detected the frequency outside it's rate, would turn off.

Solution found would to boot into single user mode and edit the "vga=xxx" entry in either the Grub or Lilo configuration file.

Will try and post more extensive listing, but here are a couple, note these still do not inidcate the frequency:

Also found it to be very helpful to enable remote Telnet access to a Linux box during building or testing of the X configuration resolution testing. Can save a lot of rebooting to regain access to a machine.