[GLUG-chat] Re: Gentoo ... disks

[Gareth Gregor <gareth@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Matthew French wrote:

> Steven Macintyre said:
>  
>
> > Starting up gentoo ... I get a unreadable screen display ... this is the
> > text bootup ... untill it says "loading User Font" then the display is ok
> > ?
> >
> > Ideas?
> >    
>
> There is a boot option that disables the frame buffer. Something like
> "novga"?
>
>  
Not sure about stopping the framebuffer, but at the boot loader prompt ( 
not sure if its grub or lilo you got ) use vga=ask and it will give you 
a choice of display modes, or vga=normal.

The 1024x768 SVGA console running on a framebuffer is vga=719 ( i think)

-G-

P.s.: Sorry if this is html.....

> AFAIR this is documented on the install disks (when you boot from the CD
> and press F1).
>
> Alternately, read the install guide:
> http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=1&chap=9
>
> The first section explains the frame buffer options.
>
> HTH,
>
> - Matthew
>
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