On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 2:07 PM, Nikos Chantziaras <rea...@arcor.de> wrote: > uvesafb will not give you extra resolutions. It will however allow you to > use non-default refresh-rates which is sometimes useful with CRT monitors. > > But it has a drawback too: it needs a userspace tool and resolution is > switched too late during the boot process, meaning until it loads you'll be > seeing the kernel boot in 80x25 mode (which in turn means no boot > graphics/logo right from the start.)
I use uvesafb and I can see Tux (eight of him) during my boot process before uvesafb kicks in.
