On Thu, 20 May 2004, SuSE User wrote:
are you able to see the boot stuff after grub times out? If not, maybe you just need to lower the console resolution (though I'm not sure about refresh rates) by editing /boot/grub/menu.lst and changing the "vga=" part of the kernel line for linux.
Thank you for your help. Of course I had tried to put vga=normal on the options line before but didn't realize that this wouldn't work because of the showopts option that was present in my /boot/grub/menu.lst file. I found the relevant info here: http://portal.suse.com/sdb/en/2002/12/wessels_blackinst.html which suggested to take showopts out to be able to manipulate the vga settings.
http://www.jeepster.org.uk/bits/grub.html has a chart showing the values. try 640 and work your way up if it works?
vga=0x318 actually works fine, so it looks like the monitor wants to start with a little lower resolution than it is rated. Best regards, Alex.