Re: Fwd: Problems with linux and framebuffer

[Felix Zielcke <fzielcke@z-51.de>]

Am Montag, den 26.10.2009, 23:32 +0200 schrieb Ciprian Dorin, Craciun:
> I've tried initially to send this email to the mailing list
> without beeing subscribed. Now I've subscribed and send the email
> again.
> 
>     Ciprian.
> 
>     P.S.: Is there any mailing list for Grub users?
> 

There is help-grub@gnu.org but it's pretty low traffic and at least I'm
not subscribed there.
For support questions about grub2 our IRC channel is better: #grub on
irc.freenode.net

> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Ciprian Dorin, Craciun <ciprian.craciun@gmail.com>
> Date: Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 11:01 PM
> Subject: Problems with linux and framebuffer
> To: grub-devel@gnu.org
> 
> 
>    Hello all!
> 
>    I've just installed Grub 1.97 on my laptop, and tried it... (I've
> installed it manualy by calling grub-mkimage and grub-setup.)
> 
>    The problem is related with not beeing able to boot a Linux kernel
> with framebuffer... (I've already tried the gfx dance...) :) (See the
> attached config where I've commented the lines in discussion.)
> 
>    Can anyone send me a working grub.cfg example?

grub-mkconfig should generate a gfxterm config if you have the fonts
compiled.
If you used grub-mkfont yourself you can use
GRUB_FONT_PATH=/boot/myfont.pf2 in /etc/default/grub
or /usr/local/default/grub depending what --prefix option was used
to ./configure

For `set gfxpayload=1024x768x32' or the deprecated `vga=0x317' to work
you need at least `insmod vbe'

-- 
Felix Zielcke
Proud Debian Maintainer and GNU GRUB developer