Hi Stan; You well might be right. On Fri, 2008-06-27 at 09:17 -0700, stan wrote: > William Case wrote: > > Hi Mikkel; > > > > On Fri, 2008-06-27 at 08:13 -0500, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: > > > >> > >> Dumb question - is this a brief flash, like the video changing > >> modes, and not a longer pause between displays of the menu? > >> > > > > Not a dumb question. The flash lasts about 1/2 second. Just long enough > > for eyes to catch a Fedora blue screen, the word Fedora at the top of > > the screen, and, the beginning of a menu box being written. Then the > > screen blanks for 2 - 3 seconds ( I have tried to count the times off) > > and finally the splash image is fully redrawn. When it loads for the > > second time the Fedora name is at the bottom. I mention that in support > > of your idea it may be the video changing: maybe in the first instance > > the splash image is not getting drawn properly. > > > > Another thing, this started in F8. I hadn't made the connection until > > now and it just might be my frustration making invalid assumptions. > > Keeping in mind I don't boot THAT often in order to always notice > > exactly when the issue started. But, two or three months ago, I > > installed a new motherboard switching from an ATI video card to a Nvidia > > on board video chip. > > > > > It sounds like you know more about grub than I do, so I can't give you > any incisive > insight. But your comment above made me wonder if this is a video > driver issue > rather than a grub issue. Have you tried the opposite driver. i.e. if > you are using the > closed source driver for your card, try the open source driver, or vice > versa. > I was putting off installing things like new video drivers until I had my system working right. I have the Xwindows "nv" driver installed. I will now replace it with the lvnia nvidia driver to see if that makes a difference. Thanks for your ideas. A fresh approach always gets one out of a thinking rut . -- Regards Bill; Fedora 9, Gnome 2.22.2 Evo.2.22.2, Emacs 22.2.1 -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
