Re: [SLE] How to disable framebuffer? VGA options?

On Tuesday 11 May 2004 20.09, Chris Carlen wrote:

Hi:

Re: Suse 8.2 on a Asus K8V AMD 64 system.

I have a problem with an MSI FX5200 video card giving a screwed up text console after shutting down X.

I have been advised to "disable the framebuffer."

How to go about this?

In YaST, in System->/etc/sysconfig editor->System->Boot->SPLASH, set it to 'No'

Also, I am aware that one can pass options of the form "vga=..." to the kernel through the bootprompt.

Where is documentation on these options? I didn't find any mention of the vga option in the HOWTO on the bootprompt, nor the GRUB documentation.

It is a kernel option, so you should look in the kernel documentation. Install the kernel source and look at /usr/src/linux/Documentation/fb/vesafb.txt