From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1L6WtF-0008SR-JG for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 29 Nov 2008 20:58:09 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9E992E0292; Sat, 29 Nov 2008 20:58:07 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 79980E028E for ; Sat, 29 Nov 2008 20:58:07 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0903C6458C for ; Sat, 29 Nov 2008 20:58:07 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -4.599 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-4.599 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=-2.000, BAYES_00=-2.599] Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id TkPuGKUcWicY for ; Sat, 29 Nov 2008 20:58:00 +0000 (UTC) Received: from yx-out-1718.google.com (yx-out-1718.google.com [74.125.44.152]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6D46C64545 for ; Sat, 29 Nov 2008 20:58:00 +0000 (UTC) Received: by yx-out-1718.google.com with SMTP id 3so748575yxi.84 for ; Sat, 29 Nov 2008 12:57:59 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from :user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=1TttIPICRj3zBU40OiBRFouP2glGI65EjwZH6ndJLic=; b=uE27LSk0RPzLUiUSq00XPLWzay1xn6beawNihu3IixME798wtUNgvp8lqZJLySbK7l 6H8BjVkNNqgQHsYpL8phVzHkfbyYIsV+nKbr2zciDkLgZ7bWZynu5+xycCebpOIiHj3p BB6E2Cczv4+UKb5bvH2I2lWd7bYmOeVmmJSX0= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=dpciTSnuvJEHPS33neKWxUL82fdIMqV+HcTqlfso3xbbi69Mb/1U+cSa8EiTv+fe5Z N7HtRSaLoJrho8gXS8y6rgucw9lEInqI7lmJCtadFXZGlRCvmJA13e/M8TvexzE5ej4D m4SI14hkCprxC3p5EatCZnGX43+bg4Mqb3tFA= Received: by 10.90.120.14 with SMTP id s14mr5150924agc.36.1227992279804; Sat, 29 Nov 2008 12:57:59 -0800 (PST) Received: from ?127.0.0.1? (alchemy.adamkuj.net [216.139.240.0]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 5sm3025090agc.29.2008.11.29.12.57.56 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Sat, 29 Nov 2008 12:57:58 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <4931ACCE.3080407@gmail.com> Date: Sat, 29 Nov 2008 15:57:50 -0500 From: 7v5w7go9ub0o <7v5w7go9ub0o@gmail.com> User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.17 (X11/20080914) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] boot messages; vga; vesa; HDTV monitor Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: f4e2607c-6efc-4f76-aa20-c8d5ab0c8bc3 X-Archives-Hash: c4cd8856a60da39aa39690884984051c A few years back I installed gentoo and everything worked fine, except that the OS bootup messages were too "big", and scrolled by too fast. Somewhere I found a tweak (IIRC, it involved recompiling the kernel) that handled it fine - i.e. the font was reduced dramatically after the bios was booted, right at the beginning of the OS booting. Today I replaced my monitor with an HDTV monitor which works fine during the bios boot; works fine after X is booted; but is "shakey" and unreliable during the OS boot. I have worked around these symptoms by adding vga=ask to lilo.conf, and then telling it to use vga. Questions: 1. Anyone aware of a wiki or other gentoo "help" that describes how to change the boot message "size" during boot? It is possible that I simply added a framebuffer, but it seems that I changed some config. somewhere as well. 2. Anyone have a workaround for using a new HDTV monitor with an older ATI graphics card? TIA