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endovelico

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Registered: 2008-07-07

Posts: 3

Live CD Installation - Bad Screen Resolution

Hello,

I have decided recently to install a fresh Unix OS on an old computer (PIII 500) that was collecting dust, after much thought decided to go with Arch Linux.
The thing is, upon installation, the screen resolution was way too low, so by the time i got to the partitioning fase, i could only see half of the text.
I tried out alot of other distros, to see if this problem persisted, and Archlinux seems to be the only one presenting this problem.
My screen is a 15 inch one, but that probably is irrelevant.
As anyone had this problem? Any idea how to fix it?

Thanks in advance, and apologies if a similar issue has been reported before (i did do a forum search, but found nothing related,)

Misfit138

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Registered: 2006-11-27

Posts: 4,189

Re: Live CD Installation - Bad Screen Resolution

Did you try passing a vga= argument on boot, to specify your framebuffer resolution?

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endovelico

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Registered: 2008-07-07

Posts: 3

Re: Live CD Installation - Bad Screen Resolution

Did you try passing a vga= argument on boot, to specify your framebuffer resolution?

No i did not, that may be what im looking for. Thank you, ill feedback and update the thread as soon as i get on that.

endovelico

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Registered: 2008-07-07

Posts: 3

Re: Live CD Installation - Bad Screen Resolution

Did you try passing a vga= argument on boot, to specify your framebuffer resolution?

When you say "on boot" do you mean that boot screen that first appears when you put the live cd? If so, im not sure how to pass arguments there...

The Menu only gives a small number of options (Boot Live Archlinux, Boot ArchLinux legacy, other options, etc), and after that at the console line im not sure where or how to pass that argument...

XFire

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From: UK

Registered: 2008-05-11

Posts: 192

Re: Live CD Installation - Bad Screen Resolution

If it shows grub, press 'e'  to edit the option which you wish to boot, and then on the option which has the kernel (usually the second line) put in vga=xxx the x being the resolution which you want

#     +-------------------------------------------------+
#          | 640x480    800x600    1024x768   1280x1024
#      ----+--------------------------------------------
#      256 | 0x301=769  0x303=771  0x305=773   0x307=775
#      32K | 0x310=784  0x313=787  0x316=790   0x319=793
#      64K | 0x311=785  0x314=788  0x317=791   0x31A=794
#      16M | 0x312=786  0x315=789  0x318=792   0x31B=795
#     +-------------------------------------------------+

then press return and then b to boot.

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