I've been seeing the following error when booting into antiX-M8.5 ever since the install disk earlier today:

"Undefined video mode number:317"

If I don't do anything, it sits there for 30 seconds. If I press space, it moves on, and if I press enter, it lets me set the video mode to 0. The end result is the same - I get the login screen.

How can I tell it to use video mode 0 before getting to the login screen so that it won't ask me every time?

I'm very impressed now with antiX because it really works on 10 year old hardware that was low end even when it came out, and the community has given me quick answers to where it's working just the way I want after logging in. Now if I can just get rid of this last annoyance, I'll be satisfied.

Thanks everyone for your help.

At /boot/grub/menu.lst add line vga=788 (it might be vga=791 or something else) to the kernel line.

Or to test, at boot screen just type vga=788 and see if it boots ok.

It is already set to 791 and testing 788 doesn't work either. When it's set to 791, I get Undefined video mode number: 317 and when I set it to 788, I get undefined video mode number: 314. The allowed video numbers are single digits, and 0 works fine. This"video number" is for use before loading the VGA graphics - in other words, its just for text. Mode 0 is 80x24 I think and that's the mode that looks best when printing all the text to the screen before the login splash screen. I will look at that menu.lst file to see if there's an obvious way to set the video mode number to 0, but it seems some sort of formula is being applied to the vga setting to get the video mode number.

I use vga=normal on my eeepc screen. no more waiting for the undefined error message.

Thanks, vga=normal works