Re: How do I Change Native Resolution on Boot Display?

bitbucket_at_linkline.com
Date: 09/10/04 

Date: Thu, 09 Sep 2004 23:15:06 -0700

On Thu, 09 Sep 2004 21:20:23 -0800, Kevin & Theresa Miller
<atftb@alaska.net> wrote:

|bitbucket@linkline.com wrote:
|
|> Suse 9.1 pro. Replaced my big tube monitor with a neat bigger flat
|> panel. Its native resolution is 1280x1024, and it is unforgiving of
|> anything else. When I boot, it simply bobs a notice around that the
|> current resolution is not supported. Once xstart fires off, I have a
|> nice display. The only resolution control that I can find is involved
|> with the xwindows system, not the basic boot display. X windows works
|> flawlessly using tweaking tools supplied with the package. The old
|> monitor let me hit F2 during boot and watch the progress, now that is
|> not an option.
|>
|> Anyone know where I should be looking for this setting? I searched
|> this newsgroup back to last December, and Google, but no luck.
|>
|> Thanks.
|
|Was having an entirely different problem but I think the solution is the same in
|both cases. In /boot/grub/menu.lst change "vga=0x??? to vga=normal). That
|parameter tells it what resolution to start up at. If you say normal - or even
|just remove the parameter - it should start up using it's defaults.
|
|Hope that helps...

Thank you Kevin. Just booted earlier today, so won't know how this
works until next time. Will drop a note in here if it works. I set
it to 'normal' though I know where to look for the translation to
resolution vs 0x???'s--or did at one time. I had been looking for a
parameter like that one, off and on for months, couldn't find nuttin.

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