On Sat, May 31, 2003 at 01:23:03AM +0200, H du Plooy wrote:
Well either ways, the vga mode that your kernel uses is not supported by your monitor. And unfortunately this cannot be changed while the machine is running - you have to reboot and set the right parameters (at least the last time I checked). Check your /boot/grub/ment.1st file. You'll see some kernel parameters and one is something to the tune of
vga=761 or vga=0x317
Change that to vga=5 (most monitors support this) and if this doesn't work, remove the vga= line completely - this will throw your monitor into normal 80x25 character text mode. Not the nice imaged background SuSE provides, but at least you'll be able to see the kernel messages.
My menu.1st file had "vga=0x31a", which is not one you mentioned. So I tried what you gave me above, 0x317. That works just fine for me. normal also worked, but 0x0317 is higher resolution and is much more pleasant for the install... I had no luck finding detailed info for the what the options meant so that I could pick my own. But your 0x0317 got me where I needed to be!! Thank you so much! -Michael