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On Thu, 16 Feb 2017 15:20:25 -0500, Harry Putnam wrote: |
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> What can you tell me about how to get an initial hi-res frame buffer |
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> during boot and after when in console mode? |
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KMS takes care of that with real hardware, but not so much with virtual |
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hardware. |
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> I know how to do it in grub:0. But I see my first feeble attempt in |
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> grub:2 was total non-starter. |
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You're supposed to use a video= parameter but I find the old school |
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vga=794 works for me. The thing you have to learn with using GRUB, or at |
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least when using grub-mkconfig, is that you don't edit grub.cfg |
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but /etc/default/grub when you want to add kernel parameters. |
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Neil Bothwick |
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Employ teenagers - while they know everything. |
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