RE: [gentoo-user] Boot stalls after install of 2005.1

["Michael Kintzios" <michaelkintzios@lycos.co.uk>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Holly Bostick [mailto:motub@planet.nl] 
> Sent: 23 August 2005 16:19
> To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
> Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Boot stalls after install of 2005.1
> 
> 
> Marcel Romijn schreef:
> >  
> > 
> > I assumed that even though the kernel has framebuffer 
> support built in,
> > it won't use it if it is not configured as kernel parameter in
> > grub.conf.
> > Maybe that was a wrong assumption?
> 
> Yes, it was. The settings in grub.conf are supposed to override the
> kernel settings. But if the framebuffer is set in the kernel, 
> naturally
> the kernel is going to start the framebuffer. It is, after all, the
> kernel, and the kernel is king of the hill.
> 
> If you don't want a framebuffer, remove framebuffer support from your
> kernel config.
> 
> Unless there's a setting in grub.conf to disable the
> previously-initialized framebuffer. If there was, you could use that,
> but I don't even know if such a setting exists, and seems like extra
> work in any case (enabling the framebuffer just to disable it with an
> override that may or may not work).

Perhaps adding -nofb to the kernel will help?

Also, why did you change your 1024x768-32@85 to 1024x768-32@60 - did you
change your monitor?
-- 
Regards,
Mick

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