Thanks Mikkel; On Fri, 2008-06-27 at 12:28 -0500, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: > William Case wrote: > > > > 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 sure sounds like a video mode problem. I wonder if grub-install > store the VESA mode to use, and it needs a different mode for the > ATI card then the Nvida card? I do not know enough about that part > of Grub to know for sure. But if that is the case, you would have > thought that the updated Grub package would have fixed that when it > installed. > > Mikkel As I said, the double splash image doesn't prevent me from doing anything, so I'll let it sit for a couple of days. If no one (including me) comes up with a solution, I will file a bug against it. I just had the objective of after the fresh install of F9, working on cleaning up all the cruft, annoyances and problems I had accumulated and thereby have a washed, dried and polished system. -- 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
