Please im under a terminal, i need to see one image... ;)

Is nice when we see somebody not too much dependent upon GUI stuff!

Ok fellow, here we go...

Your kernel has support for let's say VGA/VESA?

You known how you check it? if no, i think it's time for you go to the linux kernel download the kernel sources(the full one), put it under /usr/src, unpack it, make a symbolic link from /usr/src/- to /usr/src/linux and go inside there, make sure you have grep installed, and start kidding in the land of pattern searching ;)

Basically(no matter what distribution you have in your hands, you must be able to do it manually :) you need to go to the directory named Documentation.

Do you at least known how to read documentation in Unix-like environment ya?

If you don't, sorry but, i guess that first some other steps must be done, try to check what you can find in that website ->TLDP, what those people do there.

When we turn the computer on, in the boot process if you see a penguim on top of your screen, then the framebuffer is activated, you should look for the special file that provide the access tho the framebuffer, most of the times if you didn't have changed the rules of udev that will be something like /dev/fbX, where X is the number used to differentiate the framebuffer on your machine, here i have just one, it start from 0, so /dev/fb0.

If you known how compile the kernel, you probably known where to find documentation for it, as i wrote, its under Documentation, there you can find, oh let's our reader do its homework...

There are video modes, those adjust the resolution and the depth color for the video output, if you think that in the configuration of your bootloader might have this parameter, then grep for 'vga=' pattern, i don't known what bootloader you are using but, might be lilo, grub or syslinux, however a easy thing is to find the configuration where it should be, grep recursively into the /etc or /boot directory.

Remember the keyword "framebuffer".

http://freshmeat.net/search?q=<query>&submit=Search

Our query might me something like: framebuffer, vga, vesa, fb, etc.

Please remember you should encode your url rfc1738 .

Note: don't include etc. it's a latin abreviation(a dead language sure?) that is used a lot by the
people till today, that happens because people don't known how to write, "and something more..." ;)

I have to say, some of them need patches, do you ever knwon how to compile a software, a Free and Open Source Software(FOOS)?

Have you sometime used the diffutils?

Have you sometime used the gcc?

Are you a programmer?

Where you are, where you will go?