On 09/05/2007 08:52 AM, Nelson Strother wrote: > Please help me understand if we have a bug, or a design change (if so, > where is the documentation?). > > The f8t1 LiveCD responds to an attempt to use the boot loader parameter > vga=0x799 (via using the [TAB] key on the initial boot choice screen > to edit the "Run from image" entry to add this parameter to the end of > the: > > vmlinuz initrd=initrd.img ro quiet > root=CDLABEL=Fedora-8-Test-1-Live-i686 rootfstype=iso9660 liveimg > > line) with: > - - - > Undefined video mode number 799 > Press <ENTER> to see video modes available, <SPACE> to continue, or wait 30 sec > [<ENTER> displays something similar to: ] > Mode: COLS x ROWS > 0 0F00 80 x 25 VGA > 1 0F01 80 x 50 VGA > 2 0F02 80 x 43 VGA > 3 0F03 80 x 28 VGA > 4 0F05 80 x 30 VGA > 5 0F06 80 x 39 VGA > 6 0F07 80 x 60 VGA > [... selecting a choice to scan for additional modes merely made the > screen flash for a couple of minutes, but no additional choices were > displayed] > - - - > > Selecting one of the scrunched modes (e.g. 6) does pack more > characters on the screen ... for a while; but by the time the boot > messages were into the "SELinux ..." group, just before the > "Interactive Startup" message, this VGA choice had evaporated > and the usual smaller number of characters were being displayed > on the screen Yeah, the startup scripts very "helpfully" load a default font that destroys the compressed text mode selected at boot time. On a normal system, just rename the fonts directory to work around that problem. Then save the console font from bootup and make that the new default (and restore the directory name.) > I appreciate the feedback, as that is better than the silent > failures to change video modes I have witnessed with other recent > Fedora media. But the choice of modes shown is quite different > from those shown on e.g.: > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora7/FAQ#head-1d333d02c2c2e2f3b06d18ce92d41dcbba823d59 > and other places VESA video modes (or VGA codes) are documented. > > Bugzilla time? Or do others with different hardware find more > constructive behavior from attempts to use this boot loader parameter > vga=... ? There were bugs in the video mode detection in the test1 kernel. Try test2 and if that doesn't work file a bug. -- fedora-test-list mailing list fedora-test-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list
