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somebody

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Registered: 2006-08-14

Posts: 18

kernel26: bad logo, kernel26beyond: black screen

Hiya,

[#1]
I would like to use kernel26beyod because of the cool patches. Unfortunately, I get a black screen when booting beyond. How to solve this? I heard this is normal on some hardware? The video card is an ATi X1300.

[#2]
With normal kernel26 almost everything is fine.
Booting kernel26 the arch logo in the top left corner has a blue background - not enough colors I think? I tried to add video=vesafb:ywrap,mtrr,1024x768-32@60 in grub's config, no change...any hint?

iphitus

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From: Melbourne, Australia

Registered: 2004-10-09

Posts: 4,927

Re: kernel26: bad logo, kernel26beyond: black screen

some ATi's seem to have problems with vesafb-tng. This will be removed in the next release, in favour of regular vesafb.

to disable vesafb-tng, add: video=vesafb:off

somebody

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Registered: 2006-08-14

Posts: 18

Re: kernel26: bad logo, kernel26beyond: black screen

Hello

Adding video=vesafb:off to the kernel26beyond line in the grub config worked, thx!

But now he is complaining that an undefined mode number (vga=773) was passed. 733 is for 1024x768, I tried all possible numbers of 800x600, it's the same...Why kernel26beyond do not know this mode numbers?

Thank you

T-Dawg

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From: Charlotte, NC

Registered: 2005-01-29

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Re: kernel26: bad logo, kernel26beyond: black screen

Hello

Adding video=vesafb:off to the kernel26beyond line in the grub config worked, thx!

But now he is complaining that an undefined mode number (vga=773) was passed. 733 is for 1024x768, I tried all possible numbers of 800x600, it's the same...Why kernel26beyond do not know this mode numbers?

Thank you

because you just disabled the frame buffer. Try removing the vga= line and it should boot.

somebody

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Registered: 2006-08-14

Posts: 18

Re: kernel26: bad logo, kernel26beyond: black screen

Concerning [#1] it helped to use vga=790 and higher (higher colordepth at 1024x768).

[#2]
Oh, of course that was stupid. Now I wanted to search for other "modes" in the kernel documentation and try them out, but I notices that is no /usr/src/linux-2.6.17-beyond/Documentation?!

Thank you,
Bye

tomk

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From: Ireland

Registered: 2004-07-21

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Re: kernel26: bad logo, kernel26beyond: black screen

Arch does not install documentation for the kernel, or any other app, for that matter. You can find it online.