Re: [SLE] major Samsung frequency problems
On Fri, 2003-05-30 at 20:44, Michael George wrote:
I tried just booting the installation DVD and I wasn't even able to see the boot screen at all. I think that kernel is as stock as can be...
Thanks! -Michael
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.
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
On Mon, 2003-06-02 at 14:33, Michael George wrote:
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
Somewhere in /usr/src/linux-2.4.20.SuSE/Documentation there is a file that describes this. vga= basically selects the vga console mode. I think yours might have been set too high for your monitor. You can also try vga=ask to see what's available. I think the 0x317 ect. are not standard ones, i.e. added by SuSE or the framebuffer package. H
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