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kaddy

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From: Perth, Western Australia

Registered: 2009-09-22

Posts: 192

framebuffer for Grub2 issues [SOLVED]

Hey Archers

I had my framebuffer working with arch with grub-legacy using vga= settings.... but I decided to use Grub2, and it works well....
although I am not able to enable my framebuffer using the method on the wiki which was by editing:
GRUB_GFXMODE=1024x768x32
GRUB_GFXPAYLOAD_LINUX=keep

I tried lots of different resolutions and I would get a black screen when the grub screen should appear... so I had to chroot into it and fix the resolution...

it is my understanding that these settings in grub 2 should change the grubscreen resolution as well as the console resolution..... (correct me if im wrong) or is it just for the grub screen menu?

anyways.... any ideas/tutorials on how to get my framebuffer so I can work happily in the terminal again?
maybe I need a different video driver for the boot.....

any ideas?

cheers
kaddy

Last edited by kaddy (2010-05-29 04:10:56)

kaddy

Member

From: Perth, Western Australia

Registered: 2009-09-22

Posts: 192

Re: framebuffer for Grub2 issues [SOLVED]

actually.... I just found that I can still use the vga= option in /etc/default/grub next to this line:
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT=

mine is GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash vga=792"
all good