Re: boot screen
On Friday 23 May 2008 23.56.31 Philip Bernstein wrote:
> 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).
Hi,
The file vesafb.txt is from the documentation bundled with the kernel source.
Heres an excerpt from vesafb.txt that documents the possible VESA video
modes:
| 640x480 800x600 1024x768 1280x1024
----+-------------------------------------
256 | 0x301 0x303 0x305 0x307
32k | 0x310 0x313 0x316 0x319
64k | 0x311 0x314 0x317 0x31A
16M | 0x312 0x315 0x318 0x31B
I don't know anything about Kubuntu's kernel configuration, but you can check
the output from the vesafb kernel code by running 'dmesg | grep vesafb' in an
terminal to verify that the kernel supports vesafb and can access the video
memory direct.
// Anders
> 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
>
> --
> Philip Bernstein
> ppberns@hvc.rr.com
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