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. -- John R. Sowden AMERICAN SENTRY SYSTEMS, INC. Residential & Commercial Alarm Service UL Listed Central Station Serving the San Francisco Bay Area Since 1967 mail@americansentry.net www.americansentry.net