Re: boot screen

[Philip Bernstein <ppberns@hvc.rr.com>]

Hi,

  Thanks but I probably should have given out more info here.  That 
file or path does not exist on my system.  I am running on an AMD64 bit 
machine with a Nvidia graphics card (GeForce 7300GT) 2 gig memory.  In 
my /usr/src directory I have the following:
"linux-headers-2.6.24-17-generic"  I ran find on it and came up with:
/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.24-17-generic/include/config/fb/vesa.h which 
in this case is a zero byte file.  I am running Kubuntu 8.04 with all 
the latest updates (this worked this way even in Kubuntu 7.10).



Anders Lövgren wrote:
> On Tuesday 20 May 2008 12.49.03 Philip Bernstein wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> >       I have several systems and on them when I boot I can see all the
> > info scroll across the screen with OK or FAIL (on the right hand side)
> > depending on how things go (in menu.lst I have removed from the boot
> > lines "splash" so I don't get the boot splash).
> > But on my amd64 system the boot messages are quite large and I can't see
> > the OK or FAIL indicators (on the right hand side of the display).  Now
> > on the other systems I see that there is on the boot line in menu.lst
> > "vga=791". I tried to put that in the amd64 menu.lst and all I get is a
> > blank screen during boot up.  After the system boots, everything is fine
> > and  get my graphics back and all works.  Anyone notice this during
> > there boot up and found how to reduce the graphics on boot up so you can
> > see whats going on?
> >
> > --
> > Philip Bernstein
> > ppberns@hvc.rr.com
>
> Hi,
>
> The vga=xxx values usually depends on the monitor, look inside the
> file /usr/src/linux/Documentation/fb/vesafb.txt. For my 19" LCD I use
> vga=0x31b (1280x1024, 32-bit).
>
> You may also need something like video=vesafb:1280x1024-32 to get it working.
>
> // Anders

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Philip Bernstein
ppberns@hvc.rr.com