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On Saturdayen den 5 September 2009 16.54.14 Paul Stear wrote: |
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> On Saturday 05 Sep 2009 14:51:43 Anders Lövgren wrote: |
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> > On Saturdayen den 5 September 2009 13.43.19 Paul Stear wrote: |
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> > > Well I now have kde 4.3.1 installed and apart from a few issues the |
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> > > update from 3.5.10 went well. |
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> > > |
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> > > ***Well done*** to all the developers who have brought kde this far. I |
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> > > just need to get use to working slightly different now <grin>. |
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> > > |
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> > > By the way does anybody know how to use a smaller font for the boot up |
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> > > screen? |
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> > |
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> > Try append something like 'vga=791 video=vesafb:ywrap,mtrr,1280x800-16' |
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> > to your kernel parameters in grub.conf |
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> <snip> |
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> Thanks Anders but it didn't work, I just had a blank screen but the machine |
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> did boot and gave me the kde loggin. |
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> Paul |
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Try setting the video parameter to the native resolution for your monitor. The |
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vga value to use can be found in /usr/src/linux/Documentation/fb/vesafb.txt, |
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using the best matching value seems to be sufficient. |
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You have to experiment a bit at the grub boot prompt, and for some graphic |
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card/display combinations the VESA mode is not going to work at all. |
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// Anders |
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