video=vesa:option[,options]

FROM: http://lists.debian.org/debian-user-spanish/2003/12/msg00433.html Accepted options: invers no comment… ypan enable display panning using the VESA protected mode interface. The visible screen is just a window of the video memory, console scrolling is done by changing the start of the window. pro: * scrolling (fullscreen) is fast, because there is no need to copy around data. * You’ll get scrollback (the Shift-PgUp thing), the video memory can be used as scrollback buffer kontra: * scrolling only parts of the screen causes some ugly flicker effects (boot logo flickers for example). ywrap Same as ypan, but assumes your gfx board can wrap-around the video memory (i.e. starts reading from top if it reaches the end of video memory). Faster than ypan. redraw scroll by redrawing the affected part of the screen, this is the safe (and slow) default. vgapal Use the standard vga...

2007-03-06 · wuan