VGA out of range error message
I've already complained about this, and I will once more. I have repeatedly encountered difficulties installing SuSE 9.3 and 10 on a system with a TFT screen (Sony and Samsung, so I think might/will happen with most TFT's). You get that vga out or range error message which makes it impossible for a newcomer to install SuSe without tinkering with parameters such as vga=[insert your valie here]. I continue to think that this is unacceptable for a linux distribution you pay good money for, and please don't come up with silly arguments like: this si the essence of linux, you've got to be ready to invest browsing docs, and the like. A friend of mine has just come over with her computer, running SuSe 9.2, and a serious problem: The system won't boot, and complains about reiserfs corruption. After trying all kinds of variations on reiserfschk, she tried --rebuild-tree, without having made a backup of her files (she's a journalist, so it's pretty important). Reiserfschk completed, but the machine still won't boot, so she brought it to me. I tried to boot after connecting a keyboard and a mouse and a Sony TFT screen, and yes, I got the dreaded vga out of range message. I tried boot options vga=vesa, vga=792, vga=791 and many more, to no avail. Esc twice booted in text mode, and I could see where the reiserfschk fails. I then tried to rescue her data using a Knoppix 3.4 in German I had from some time ago, and hey presto, it booted straight into kde, without any silly vga out of range error messages, and I was connected to the internet and could browse her reiserfs partition and burn a dvd with her data without intervening at any moment. If Knoppix can do it, why can't SuSE? FX
On Mon, 2005-12-26 at 14:15 +0100, FX Fraipont wrote:
I've already complained about this, and I will once more. I have repeatedly encountered difficulties installing SuSE 9.3 and 10 on a system with a TFT screen (Sony and Samsung, so I think might/will happen with most TFT's). You get that vga out or range error message which makes it impossible for a newcomer to install SuSe without tinkering with parameters such as vga=[insert your valie here]. I continue to think that this is unacceptable for a linux distribution you pay good money for, and please don't come up with silly arguments like: this si the essence of linux, you've got to be ready to invest browsing docs, and the like.
A friend of mine has just come over with her computer, running SuSe 9.2, and a serious problem: The system won't boot, and complains about reiserfs corruption. After trying all kinds of variations on reiserfschk, she tried --rebuild-tree, without having made a backup of her files (she's a journalist, so it's pretty important). Reiserfschk completed, but the machine still won't boot, so she brought it to me.
I tried to boot after connecting a keyboard and a mouse and a Sony TFT screen, and yes, I got the dreaded vga out of range message. I tried boot options vga=vesa, vga=792, vga=791 and many more, to no avail. Esc twice booted in text mode, and I could see where the reiserfschk fails.
I then tried to rescue her data using a Knoppix 3.4 in German I had from some time ago, and hey presto, it booted straight into kde, without any silly vga out of range error messages, and I was connected to the internet and could browse her reiserfs partition and burn a dvd with her data without intervening at any moment.
If Knoppix can do it, why can't SuSE?
And what happened when you tried the SUSE install DVD to boot to rescue mode? -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998
Ken Schneider wrote:
I then tried to rescue her data using a Knoppix 3.4 in German I had from some time ago, and hey presto, it booted straight into kde, without any silly vga out of range error messages, and I was connected to the internet and could browse her reiserfs partition and burn a dvd with her data without intervening at any moment.
If Knoppix can do it, why can't SuSE?
And what happened when you tried the SUSE install DVD to boot to rescue mode?
Nothing, I mean reiserfschk would start and hang somewhere in the middle of the process. --rebuid-tree eventually completed, but SuSe freezes on boot at the reiser message stage. Anyway, that's not the point, I have the data saved now and will reinstall suses10. My gripe was with the screen frequencies. fx
* FX Fraipont <fxf@scarlet.be> [12-26-05 09:25]:
My gripe was with the screen frequencies.
vga=normal -- Patrick Shanahan Registered Linux User #207535 http://wahoo.no-ip.org @ http://counter.li.org HOG # US1244711 Photo Album: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/gallery2
On Mon, 26 Dec 2005 05:32:10 -0900, Patrick Shanahan <ptilopteri@gmail.com> wrote:
* FX Fraipont <fxf@scarlet.be> [12-26-05 09:25]:
My gripe was with the screen frequencies.
vga=normal
Where would a person find this vga=normal configuration? -- Lee Ross Anchorage, AK
Lee, On Monday 26 December 2005 16:02, Lee Ross wrote:
On Mon, 26 Dec 2005 05:32:10 -0900, Patrick Shanahan
<ptilopteri@gmail.com> wrote:
* FX Fraipont <fxf@scarlet.be> [12-26-05 09:25]:
My gripe was with the screen frequencies.
vga=normal
Where would a person find this vga=normal configuration?
When the boot splash screen is visible, one of the function keys (I forget which and am not going to reboot just to get definitive information) will cause a one-line text entry field to appear. In this text field you can enter all manner of kernel configuration options, among them the vga= options.
-- Lee Ross
Randall Schulz
* Randall R Schulz <rschulz@sonic.net> [12-26-05 19:27]:
When the boot splash screen is visible, one of the function keys (I forget which and am not going to reboot just to get definitive information) will cause a one-line text entry field to appear. In this text field you can enter all manner of kernel configuration options, among them the vga= options.
Any keyboard activity during the x# seconds delay during bootup will pause bootup for keyboard entry, until a <return> is keyed. -- Patrick Shanahan Registered Linux User #207535 http://wahoo.no-ip.org @ http://counter.li.org HOG # US1244711 Photo Album: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/gallery2
On Mon, 2005-12-26 at 15:21 +0100, FX Fraipont wrote:
Ken Schneider wrote:
I then tried to rescue her data using a Knoppix 3.4 in German I had from some time ago, and hey presto, it booted straight into kde, without any silly vga out of range error messages, and I was connected to the internet and could browse her reiserfs partition and burn a dvd with her data without intervening at any moment.
If Knoppix can do it, why can't SuSE?
And what happened when you tried the SUSE install DVD to boot to rescue mode?
Nothing, I mean reiserfschk would start and hang somewhere in the middle of the process.
--rebuid-tree eventually completed, but SuSe freezes on boot at the reiser message stage. Anyway, that's not the point, I have the data saved now and will reinstall suses10. My gripe was with the screen frequencies.
fx
OK. But to compare apples to apples you should have tried using a SUSE "live DVD" and see if that would have booted to KDE, or did you? -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998
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