Re: Blurry Video when Installing
On Mon, Oct 07, 2002 at 05:58:15PM -0500, Damon Butler wrote: > > What kernel are you using? > Using kernel 2.4.18. But I've tried standard "linux" and even "rescue" modes, > too. The result is the same. > > Have you tried booting with video=vga16:off as an argument to the kernel > > image? > Actually, yes! I stumbled across it a day or two after I wrote you the > message, and now my video is fine. Can you explain why I require this option > when booting Debian but not when I was using SuSE or Mandrake? I'm guessing, others should know better. For some reason, your screen or graphics hardware doens't like the framebuffer used in the floppies. I think that the only drawback of not using it is that you can't install in other languages. > Thanks for the follow-up. Much appreciated. No problem :) Jordi -- Jordi Mallach Pérez -- Debian developer http://www.debian.org/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.sindominio.net/ GnuPG public key information available at http://oskuro.net/~jordi/ msg22600/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Blurry Video when Installing
On Monday 07 October 2002 04:03 am, you wrote: > On Thu, Sep 26, 2002 at 10:51:47PM -0500, Damon wrote: > > bought a full 7 CD set and just tried to install the system "fresh". > > Problem is, almost immediately after entering a boot loader option at the > > boot prompt, the text of my display gets completely broken up and > > unreadable. It > > What kernel are you using? Using kernel 2.4.18. But I've tried standard "linux" and even "rescue" modes, too. The result is the same. > Have you tried booting with video=vga16:off as an argument to the kernel > image? Actually, yes! I stumbled across it a day or two after I wrote you the message, and now my video is fine. Can you explain why I require this option when booting Debian but not when I was using SuSE or Mandrake? Thanks for the follow-up. Much appreciated. --Damon -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Blurry Video when Installing
On Thu, Sep 26, 2002 at 10:51:47PM -0500, Damon wrote: > bought a full 7 CD set and just tried to install the system "fresh". Problem > is, almost immediately after entering a boot loader option at the boot > prompt, the text of my display gets completely broken up and unreadable. It What kernel are you using? Have you tried booting with video=vga16:off as an argument to the kernel image? Jordi -- Jordi Mallach Pérez -- Debian developer http://www.debian.org/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.sindominio.net/ GnuPG public key information available at http://oskuro.net/~jordi/ msg22573/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
