Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4570 mails)

["John R. Sowden" <jsowden@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon October 31 2005 21:40, John R. Sowden wrote:
> Today I took my desktop home to access our dsl to download the latest open
> office.  I booted into a blank screen after the first grub menu.  I was
> unable to determine how to insert custom boot parameters.
>
> Is there a reasonable way to set up a different menu selection in grub to
> access a monitor with less resolution, or just different parameters?
>
I found a site on google that showed a chart of video ram vs resolution with 
hex values in the field.  I put vga=0x31F in a new menu item in grub's 
menu.lst.  This allowed the computer to display the boot process, but when it 
started in kde it went blank, as kde apparently does not check the resolution
in current use.

How do I deal with this?  Another use for a solution: having an external 
monitor on a laptop, and wanting to use the higher resolution of the ext mon 
v the built in screen.
 
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