Re: how to make the console not blank out and change resolution?

2010-11-19 Thread jidanni
PG( == Peter G (nephros) think...@nephros.org writes: PG( I think it is drivername.modeset=0 (e.g. radeon.modeset=0). PG( I use both: vmlinuz foo radeon.modeset=0 modeset=0 which does work. OK, I finally figured it out: $ zgrep -c modeset

Re: how to make the console not blank out and change resolution?

2010-11-17 Thread Chris Jones
On Sat, Oct 23, 2010 at 02:52:00PM EDT, jida...@jidanni.org wrote: Allow me to ask a stupid question. Permission granted. You see, when that happens, whatever that was on the screen goes away. Nor was most of what was on the screen at that point stored in dmesg or in any /var/log/* file, not

Re: how to make the console not blank out and change resolution?

2010-10-24 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 24 Oct 2010 02:52:00 +0800, jidanni wrote: Allow me to ask a stupid question. O.k, but better if you don't cross-post :-) Somewhere near this point in the dmesg messages, the console blanks and becomes a different resolution. (...) Different resolution? You mean the console text

Re: [ltp] Re: how to make the console not blank out and change resolution?

2010-10-24 Thread Peter G. (nephros)
Hodie IX Kal. Nov. MMX AUC quidam/quædam/quoddam 'jida...@jidanni.org' inquit: Fabian Henze said: nomodeset is the parameter you are searching for. I tried it. $ cat /etc/debian_version /proc/cmdline squeeze/sid BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-5-686 root=UUID=...9dc78 ro single panic=33

Re: how to make the console not blank out and change resolution?

2010-10-24 Thread jidanni
PG( == Peter G (nephros) think...@nephros.org writes: PG( I think it is drivername.modeset=0 (e.g. radeon.modeset=0). PG( I use both: vmlinuz foo radeon.modeset=0 modeset=0 which does work. How does one determine the driver name to use? At one reboot per test and with all the unsuccessful

how to make the console not blank out and change resolution?

2010-10-23 Thread jidanni
Allow me to ask a stupid question. Somewhere near this point in the dmesg messages, the console blanks and becomes a different resolution. [ 8.135936] Marking TSC unstable due to TSC halts in idle [ 8.137762] processor LNXCPU:00: registered as cooling_device0 [ 8.144690] Switching to

Re: how to make the console not blank out and change resolution?

2010-10-23 Thread Alan Ianson
On Sun, 2010-10-24 at 02:52 +0800, jida...@jidanni.org wrote: Allow me to ask a stupid question. Somewhere near this point in the dmesg messages, the console blanks and becomes a different resolution. [ 8.135936] Marking TSC unstable due to TSC halts in idle [ 8.137762] processor

Re: how to make the console not blank out and change resolution?

2010-10-23 Thread jidanni
Fabian Henze said: nomodeset is the parameter you are searching for. I tried it. $ cat /etc/debian_version /proc/cmdline squeeze/sid BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-5-686 root=UUID=...9dc78 ro single panic=33 nomodeset It didn't work. But why would you want disable that?