On Wednesday 28 January 2004 19:50, cole-anstey@ntlworld.com wrote:
SUSE 9.0 Intel Extreme Graphics
Hi, I have a eMachine 420 with an onboard Intel Extreme Graphics controller and am having problems with SUSE 9.0 not displaying the boot splash.
X works fine with full 3d acceleration, but the only thing that gets displayed when the system boots is text with the graphical penguin. I know X is configured differently from grub.
From console mode I have typed hwinfo --framebuffer but it does not list any modes which I could use to modify vga=XXX in /boot/grub/menu.lst
Interestingly enough the initial grub screen (before the boot) where you could press F2 to manually set verbose, native or silent appears correctly. What mode does this use?
I have played around manually by 'guessing' modes and modifying /boot/grub/menu.lst but can only get different character sizes.
If anyone knows the supported modes or how to get the splash working with the Extreme Graphics controller I would be grateful.
thankyou Cole
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Make sure you set your video ram in your bios to at least 8mb . Also try running "mkinitrd" as root . The bootsplash in 9.0 was non functional on my box (same gfx) until I ran mkinitrd . Kimble