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Is there a way to reenable the graphics after having disabled it in the BIOS?

The fitlet is running fine at the moment, but I'm a bit scared to do a kernel upgrade without a fallback scenario in case I can't reach it over SSH anymore.

Oh.. and if someone would be kind enough to post photos of the BIOS screens that show me how to navigate to the "enable graphics" setting, that would be highly appreciated.

Sorry, can't post the BIOS screens... my fitlet is not wired to a monitor.

But, I can make a suggestion about what to do with embedded PCs, (like the fitlets), that have
a serial port, (again like the fitlets). Use the serial port in Grub, on the Linux kernel command
line, (also in the Grub configuration file), and in "/etc/inittab". Then use a cheap USB to serial
device to access Grub menu or Linux console as needed.

Here is a rough guide to adding serial consoles to Linux;
http://www.fit-pc.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=144&t=5801


Or get fancy and use a serial to Ethernet terminal server. This is what I use. Bought off E-Bay
pretty cheap. Had several models, some dual serial ports, some single serial ports. My old
ones don't support SSH protocol, only Telnet, but hey it works.

Last, if you are desperate, you can reset your BIOS back to the defaults. I don't remember
how, but it should be in Compulab's fitlet Wiki.

fitlet BIOS reset procedure described here:
http://fit-pc.com/wiki/index.php/Fitlet_Troubleshooting

Griffon26 - please update if you have managed with reenabling the graphics.