From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Stephen Samuel Subject: Re: framebuffer console problems: not enough video RAM? Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2004 05:59:12 -0700 Sender: linux-newbie-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <417F9BA0.70807@bcgreen.com> References: <5.1.0.14.1.20041023211235.01feb690@celine> <5.1.0.14.1.20041023135516.01fefc38@celine> <417968FE.3070405@verizon.net> <41798CB8.4010701@verizon.net> <5.1.0.14.1.20041023135516.01fefc38@celine> <5.1.0.14.1.20041023211235.01feb690@celine> <5.1.0.14.1.20041024085546.020676a8@celine> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: James Miller Cc: Ray Olszewski , linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org 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: -- Stephen Samuel +1(604)876-0426 samuel@bcgreen.com http://www.bcgreen.com/~samuel/ Powerful committed communication. Transformation touching the jewel within each person and bringing it to light. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs