Re: KMS, vga=791 and intel xorg driver
On Saturday February 6 2010 2:36:02 pm Γιώργος Πάλλας wrote:
> So I removed vga=791 and problems with getting a console were resolved.
>
> In order to have a good resolution for my console while the pc is
> booting, I used the
> GRUB_GFXMODE=1440x900 directive in the grub2 config, but while it starts
> at this resolution, after the message 'Loading the initial image' (or
> something like that), it reverts again to a very low analysis. How can I
> fix that?
I think that you need to append "video=i915" to the linux command line, via
the variable GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT in /etc/default/grub. This specifies
the KMS driver for the kernel to use.
When KMS gets loaded, it resets the console's scrollback buffer. Since the KMS
driver gets loaded late in the boot process in Debian (later than in most
other distro's), you won't be able to see any of your boot messages once your
machine reaches login. Apparently this is going to be fixed in the future.
MM
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