Re: Ugly VGA fonts with console-setup (Squeeze)

[Tom H <tomh0665@gmail.com>]

> In my (limited) reading of grub2 docs and a few tests, gfxmode changes
> the video mode only for grub[1], it does not replicate the behaviour of
> the "old" vga= variable.

> [1] this is also nice as it allows use of highres images for the grub
> background

OK. Thanks.


>> avoided it almost immediately is that it seemed to pop out of nowhere
>> in some fora but was not referenced in the grub.enbug.org, Ubuntu, or
>> ArchLinux documentation.

> IIRC it was mentioned by grub itself when I tried adding the vga=
> parameter to the kernel line, something like (from memory)
> "The vga= parameter is deprecated, set gfxpayload instead"

Thanks. I had never tried passing a "vga=" to the kernel in grub2. I
just tried and saw the gfxpayload message.