[NTLUG:Discuss] SuSE 8.2 startup screen resolution

[MadHat]

On Wed, 2003-06-04 at 03:19, severian at pobox.com wrote:
> Howdy,
>    One small problem with that SuSE 8.2 box(or with my setup of it) is that 
> the screen is unreadable until it get to where it asks you to login.  The 
> monitor I used when I set it up was a nice Dell 15" high resolutio 
> Trinitron.  But, in the eguipment room, I am using a 9 inch color VGA that 
> will do 800 x 600 at 56 Hz.  I have adjusted the XFree86 setup and there 
> are no problems after the login screen.  But, I would like to see the 
> initialization stuff to watch for errors.  Can anyone tell me where to 
> adjust the monitor setting for the text stuff at startup?

Suse (when I installed it) set up the frambuffer support by default, so
that it booted with all the graphical and pretty stuff (kind of annoying
since it did not add anything besides color and a border when I did it,
as compared to adding more lines for more info on one page or somethign
useful, but I digress)

So when it boots, it will pass info to the kernel, via lilo or grub,
that says what visual setting to use.  It may not work with the new
monitor.  Check the config files for which ever boot loader you are
using and see what options it is adding.

All this is before X starts, so its not going to matter what the X
settings are.

These might help:
http://search.yahoo.com/bin/search?p=Linux+Framebuffer+HOWTO
http://sdb.suse.de/en/sdb/html/wessels_fbdev_grub.html


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