Bill Davidsen wrote: > In addition, with recent kernels, you have to start doing anything > interesting with "nomodeset" before you can use vga= or it's useful friends > video= and xdriver= most recent kernel i am using is kernel-2.6.31.5-127.fc12.i686 because kernel-2.6.31.6-145.fc12.i686 and kernel-2.6.31.6-166.fc12.i686 are giving boot problems. because i like to see boot info, i 'init 1' on first boot of a new install to change 'grub.conf'. i '#' out 'splashimage=' and 'hiddenmenu', then i remove 'rhgb' and 'quiet' from kernel argument and add 'vga=794', for a '53 rows x 120 columns' screen. so i have never seen dancing penguins 'op' was desiring. my passing along of 'vga=' was so that he would have an idea of what was available. so i do appreciate your information of 'nomodeset' and rest in case i get desires for 'anything interesting'. [i consider boot info 'informative'.] -- peace out. tc,hago. g . **** in a free world without fences, who needs gates. ** help microsoft stamp out piracy - give linux to a friend today. ** to mess up a linux box, you need to work at it. to mess up an ms windows box, you just need to *look* at it. ** learn linux: 'Rute User's Tutorial and Exposition' http://rute.2038bug.com/index.html 'The Linux Documentation Project' http://www.tldp.org/ 'LDP HOWTO-index' http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/HOWTO-INDEX/index.html 'HowtoForge' http://howtoforge.com/ ****
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