From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Nmb2g-0007HF-9j for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 02 Mar 2010 22:58:18 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 08030E0D02; Tue, 2 Mar 2010 22:57:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CC807E0D02 for ; Tue, 2 Mar 2010 22:57:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 78F331B405C for ; Tue, 2 Mar 2010 22:57:50 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -3.379 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.379 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=-0.780, 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 jPuBnZMp9RcM for ; Tue, 2 Mar 2010 22:57:44 +0000 (UTC) Received: from lo.gmane.org (lo.gmane.org [80.91.229.12]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B7DC91B414F for ; Tue, 2 Mar 2010 22:57:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Nmb1M-0002YJ-Op for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Tue, 02 Mar 2010 23:56:56 +0100 Received: from c-98-215-178-110.hsd1.in.comcast.net ([98.215.178.110]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 02 Mar 2010 23:56:56 +0100 Received: from reader by c-98-215-178-110.hsd1.in.comcast.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 02 Mar 2010 23:56:56 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: Harry Putnam Subject: [gentoo-user] about the vga clause on kernel line of grub.conf Date: Tue, 02 Mar 2010 16:55:58 -0600 Organization: Still searching... Message-ID: <87bpf6baf5.fsf@newsguy.com> 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 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: c-98-215-178-110.hsd1.in.comcast.net User-Agent: Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/23.1 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:IQiUH7g/cMMCUxkCUhOVX7/I+5M= X-Archives-Salt: 297e3df4-6603-48aa-a8b2-3e357eb812ac X-Archives-Hash: 4f1dbfa087f3f1fa06a7f42db18e326c For quite a long time I've been using things like: vga=0x31A On the kernel line in grub.conf Its a hexidecimal system drawn info in this (partial) chart I found somewhere in the kernel documentation long ago. ## 640x480 800x600 1024x768 1280x1024 ## 256 0x301 0x303 0x305 0x307 ## 32k 0x310 0x313 0x316 0x319 ## 64k 0x311 0x314 0x317 0x31A ## 16M 0x312 0x315 0x318 0x31B I've used kernel lines like below in grub.conf: (asterisks added) kernel /vmlinuz root=/dev/hda5 ** vga=0x31b ** video=vesfb:mtrr:3,ywrap For a very long time. (On occasion I've needed a smaller resolution and used 0x317) But on two recent installs of gentoo as vmware guests, that kind of entry isn't doing any good and I'm still being prompted to make a choice. When I hit as directed a largish chart of what look to be octal based settings, flashes by and only the last portion of it remains visible. It has choices like 340, 341 and many other three digit offerings from a large chart that shows the resolutions you get with the 3 digit choices. I was unable to find this chart by grepping in the kerne//Documentation directory. Where does the boot process access that chart? And why is it that the hex system is ignored and this other system offered at boot? I'm successfully using the hex system on my main gentoo machine... but on the two recently installed gentoo vmware guests it doesn't work. It may be relevant that these installs are console only... no X.