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Re: [debian-knoppix] Best boot setting for NEC LCD?



On Tue, Jul 22, 2003 at 03:10:10PM -0400, Whit Blauvelt wrote:
> The 06/06 Knoppix results in my NEC MultiSync LCD 1550V giving a "Value out
> of range" error (and blank screen) as soon as Knoppix goes into the _text_
> section of the boot process (the first screen was okay) - and it never comes
> out of that. So far the only setting I've found that avoids that is
> "fb800x600" (or however that's put), which doesn't quite make sense to me
> since the monitor runs fine at 1024x768, and this isn't a laptop. A version
> of Knoppix from six months back works just fine through the whole process,
> and KDE comes up at 1024x768, while with the 06/06 version set for frame
> buffer 800x600 KDE is only at 800x600. (Frame buffer 1024x768 doesn't work
> either.)
> 
> Is there some flag to keep just the text mode from going out of range for
> this monitor?

Well, in fact you should chose text mode instead of the (default)
framebuffer mode, saying

knoppix vga=normal

Regards
-Klaus Knopper
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