Hi,
Thank you for the pointer to the web site. I tried setting vga=ask
and that worked. When I rebooted it asked me to choose from 6
different settings (they were all 80 x 20 or 80 x 50 0F01or 80 x 60
0F07). I chose 80 x 60 and it continued to boot up and I was able to
see the "ok" on the right hand side (which is what I wanted). But the
story doesn't end here.
After the system came up I edited the menu.lst file and added
"vga=0F07" to the boot line. Then I rebooted. Well during the system
shutting down, there was nothing but garbage on the screen (it did
close the desktop and the rest of the apps normally). It was just
scrambled nonsense. Then the system was coming back up and guess what,
thats right it ignored the "vga=0F07" and booted as it always does with
the right hand side off the screen???? But if I changed the line back
to "vga=ask" it works fine when I choose the 0F07 setting.
Sorry didn't mean to ramble here just trying to be thorogh with what
happened. Thank you for those web sites though. They have lots of
good info.
Phil
C M Reinehr wrote:
Philip,
On Sat 24 May 2008 06:28, Philip Bernstein wrote:
Hi,
Thanks again for your input. Alas I am doomed to just dealing with
it at this point. I ran dmesg | grep vesafb and got the command prompt
back empty. I also just tried modifying the menu.lst with some of your
suggestions from below and a couple of variations of them all with no
luck. At this point I have to put this on the back burner because this
is more of a nit-pick with me as opposed to it being a system problem
and the wife has got a "honey do" list I need to tackle.
Thanks for your help and I will try to keep along this path to see if
there's anything I can do.
Here's a couple of links that might give you some help:
http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/BootPrompt-HOWTO-3.html -- Check out the
paragraph "The `vga=' Argument" at the bottom of the page.
http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/BootPrompt-HOWTO-5.html -- Some information on
booting with framebuffers.
Cheers!
cmr
Anders Lövgren wrote:
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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Philip Bernstein
ppberns@hvc.rr.com
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Philip Bernstein
ppberns@hvc.rr.com
A few hours grace before the madness begins again.
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