On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 10:24 AM, Robert G. (Doc) Savage <dsavage@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I modified /etc/grub.conf on my ThinkPad W700 to show the boot-up process as > text. I did this by commenting out "hiddenmenu" and removing "rhgb" and > "quiet" from the kernel spec line. The W700 has trouble with a tickless > kernel in F12 and needs "nohz=off". The first stanza is shown below. > > The W700 has an nVidia display and uses the nouveau driver. Immediately > after the menu screen in F10 and F11 I'd see 4 penguins (quad core) as the > initialization began. It was kinda neat, but in F12 there's just black space > where those penguins would be. Where'd they go? Is this an artifact of the > nouveau driver? > > #boot=/dev/sda > default=0 > timeout=5 > splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz > #hiddenmenu > # > # Kernel 0 > title Fedora 12 (Constantine) [Update 3] (2.6.31.9-174.fc12.x86_64) > root (hd0,0) > kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.31.9-174.fc12.x86_64 ro > root=UUID=blah-blah-blah LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SYSFONT=latarcyrheb-sun16 > KEYBOARDTYPE=pc KEYTABLE=us nohz=off > initrd /initramfs-2.6.31.9-174.fc12.x86_64.img These are two guesses but you may try turning off kernel mode setting (appends nomodeset to the kernel parameters I believe) and if that doesn't work try adding a VESA mode, something like "vga=..." I'm not sure what resolution you want to run but try "vga=ask" the first time and pick the one you like the most. If you're happy with it change the parameter to "vga=0x<mode>". I found out the hard way that you need to put "0x" on the front of whichever mode you choose. Richard -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
