On Wednesday, 8 May 2019 02.58.56 WEST Sam Varshavchik wrote: > I distinctly remember reading somewhere about boot video mode initialization > changes that were going into F30. IIRC, something about a "flicker-free" > effort that tries to switch the video mode only once, permanently, during > boot, and sticking with the same video mode all the way to the desktop. > I updated a system with an Nvidia chipset (an older Nvidia chipset that's > natively supported in Xorg without the need for a binary blob) that does > not use plymouth, it boots using an old-fashioned system console, until X > starts. In F29 its grub menu came up in standard VGA, then the mode quickly > changes to 132 column VGA for the duration of the boot, until the regular > 1920x1080 desktop. The 132 column VGA apparently is a 1920x1080 bitmap, so > I pretty much had a single video mode change, already. > > After updating to F30, this grub menu comes up unexpectedly in some video > mode that looks like a 640x480 VGA mode. The font looks even larger than a > normal 80 character font. After selecting the kernel, the boot starts, but > only after an unnervingly lengthy delay, I'd say about 5-10 seconds, with a > completely blank screen, before it switches to the same 132 column VGA, > with the boot proceeding normally. This gave me heart palpitations, > briefly, making me believe that the update bricked it. > > I can't find anything in the release notes or the documentation, about > fiddling boot screen modes. Any pointers? Hans has a series of blog posts about this, the last one is: https://hansdegoede.livejournal.com/20632.html Regards, -- José Matos _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
