What to use for vga=? for new Nvidia Card
First of all I which to thank the list members who helped me with my problem of a blank screen after I switch from a Nvidia MX400 to and FX5200. Changing vga=0x31a to vga=normal helped. Everything is installed and configured except now I would like to switch back to the graphical boot screen and console 1. I've currently using vga=0165. Is there some program or procedure for finding the correct video code. "lspci -n" gives "01:05.0 Class 0300: 10de:0322 (rev a1)". I tried using vga=0322 without success. Terry -- SuSE Linux 8.2 (i586) ---- 2.4.20-4GB-athlon --- Thu 04/15/04 15:35 3:35pm up 0:21, 3 users, load average: 0.26, 0.28, 0.17 There are 10 types of people, those who know binary and those who don't
On Thu, 2004-04-15 at 22:59, Terry Eck wrote:
Is there some program or procedure for finding the correct video code.
start: Yast2->Hardware->Hardware information then under framebuffer select the resolution you want and use X from "mode : x " line as VGA=x (note no hex syntax here!) Jerry
On Thursday 15 April 2004 04:59 pm, Terry Eck wrote:
First of all I which to thank the list members who helped me with my problem of a blank screen after I switch from a Nvidia MX400 to and FX5200. Changing vga=0x31a to vga=normal helped. Everything is installed and configured except now I would like to switch back to the graphical boot screen and console 1. I've currently using vga=0165. Is there some program or procedure for finding the correct video code. "lspci -n" gives "01:05.0 Class 0300: 10de:0322 (rev a1)". I tried using vga=0322 without success. Terry
There's a lot of information with the kernel documentation, in particular the svga.txt file. You might try vga=ask which will show you a list of option you can try, but first, use the 'scan' option of vga=ask and it will interrogate the bios to (hopefully) find the modes supported by the bios. -- +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ + Bruce S. Marshall bmarsh@bmarsh.com Bellaire, MI 04/16/04 07:04 + +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ "Space isn't remote at all. It's only an hour's drive away if your car could go straight upwards." - Fred Hoyle
Terry Eck wrote:
Is there some program or procedure for finding the correct video code.
Found in the HDB: vga=xxx Replace xxx with a value from the table below. This value specifies the resolution and color depth used by the X server later. Resolution in pixels Color depth | 640x480 800x600 1024x768 1280x1024 256 (8bit)| 769 771 773 775 32000 (15bit)| 784 787 790 793 65000 (16bit)| 785 788 791 794 16.7 Mill.(24bit)| 786 789 792 795
On Thursday 15 April 2004 04:59 pm, Terry Eck wrote:
First of all I which to thank the list members who helped me with my problem of a blank screen after I switch from a Nvidia MX400 to and FX5200. Changing vga=0x31a to vga=normal helped. Everything is installed and configured except now I would like to switch back to the graphical boot screen and console 1. I've currently using vga=0165. Is there some program or procedure for finding the correct video code. "lspci -n" gives "01:05.0 Class 0300: 10de:0322 (rev a1)". I tried using vga=0322 without success. Terry
There's a lot of information with the kernel documentation, in particular the svga.txt file. You might try vga=ask which will show you a list of option you can try, but first, use the 'scan' option of vga=ask and it will interrogate the bios to (hopefully) find the modes supported by the bios. -- +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ + Bruce S. Marshall bmarsh@bmarsh.com Bellaire, MI 04/16/04 07:04 + +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ "Space isn't remote at all. It's only an hour's drive away if your car could go straight upwards." - Fred Hoyle
Although this problem has not been resolved, partly because I hate to keep rebooting. I want to thank Jorge, Sjoerd, Hans, and Bruce for taking an interest in solving my problem. I will live with the non-graphical screen using vga=0164 which I obtained by using "scan" when I booted with vga=ask. I only see console 1 during boot anyway. Terry Terry Eck wrote:
First of all I which to thank the list members who helped me with my problem of a blank screen after I switch from a Nvidia MX400 to and FX5200. Changing vga=0x31a to vga=normal helped.
-- SuSE Linux 8.2 (i586) ---- 2.4.20-4GB-athlon --- Fri 04/16/04 17:30 5:30pm up 4:02, 3 users, load average: 0.15, 0.04, 0.01 There are 10 types of people, those who know binary and those who don't
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