Carlos, I am finding with the older hardward, it better to use grub, instead of grub2. I have a Dell Power Edge 1400, and the video only had 4MB, grub2 keeps wanting to use what every the monitor says it wants, grub just lets me set to 1024x768 with no worries. Just something to throw out there is you have issues at boot. Pup On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 5:13 PM, Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> wrote:
On 2013-08-11 22:19 (GMT+0200) Carlos E. R. composed:
I tested Puppy Wary 5.2 - it works fine. It detects the video card but not the monitor, so I select from a list: 1024x768x16 h31.5-49,5v56-72. This works, fills the entire screen. I don't know if it is the maximum resolution, the documentation does not say (only that is TFT 14" (N618) or 15" (N619-N620) XGA.
IIRC, 5.2's 2.6.33 was the last kernel version without having KMS built in by default. Given why that distro exists, it's pretty safe to assume it had no KMS. Therefore, comparing its video behavior to anything newer is little more than a does it work or doesn't it exercise, with nothing to be learned regarding getting anything newer working properly. Without KMS (e.g. in conjuction with nomodeset, or using pre-2.6.34 kernels), vga= works as it always had. With KMS, for what vga= did for framebuffer ttys previously, one needs video= instead. Compare the two's descriptions in kernel-parameters.txt.
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