From: Stephen Samuel <samuel@bcgreen.com>
To: James Miller <jamtat@mailsnare.net>
Cc: Ray Olszewski <ray@comarre.com>, linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: framebuffer console problems: not enough video RAM?
Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2004 05:59:12 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <417F9BA0.70807@bcgreen.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0410241436410.1287@debian-emach>
For knoppix, try booting with 'vga=normal' That avoids booting
with framebuffer text. (there are other vga=settings, but I haven't
bothered to learn them).
The VGA text code for knoppix seems to go for the 'best possible' mode
which can overwhelm the monitor.
James Miller wrote:
> Hello Ray:
>
> No. It's always been just a textmode console up until gdm kicks in--no
> cute little penguins. I'll reiterate that when I tried booting this
> system with a Knoppix CD, I couldn't get any text mode output (black
> screen with "vga mode not support(ed)") with all kinds of nice colors,
> fine resolution and little penguin like I usually get when booting with a
> Knoppix CD. On the kernel: I could provide the config, if that would
> help. Here's a selection from it that may be relevant:
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-10-27 12:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-10-22 16:42 framebuffer console problems James Miller
2004-10-22 19:00 ` James Miller
2004-10-22 20:08 ` Ray Olszewski
2004-10-22 21:02 ` James Miller
2004-10-22 21:49 ` James Miller
2004-10-22 20:09 ` Jim Nelson
2004-10-22 21:14 ` James Miller
2004-10-22 22:42 ` Jim Nelson
2004-10-23 4:40 ` James Miller
2004-10-23 20:06 ` framebuffer console problems: not enough video RAM? James Miller
2004-10-23 22:00 ` Ray Olszewski
2004-10-24 3:16 ` James Miller
2004-10-24 5:02 ` Ray Olszewski
2004-10-24 5:45 ` James Miller
2004-10-24 16:07 ` Ray Olszewski
2004-10-24 20:00 ` James Miller
2004-10-25 17:43 ` What distributions support dual processors 'out of the box' ? chuck gelm
2004-10-25 20:26 ` Owen Ford
2004-10-27 12:59 ` Stephen Samuel [this message]
2004-10-23 22:17 ` framebuffer console problems: not enough video RAM? Ray Olszewski
2004-10-24 3:25 ` James Miller
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