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A few years back I installed gentoo and everything worked fine, except |
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that the OS bootup messages were too "big", and scrolled by too fast. |
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Somewhere I found a tweak (IIRC, it involved recompiling the kernel) |
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that handled it fine - i.e. the font was reduced dramatically after the |
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bios was booted, right at the beginning of the OS booting. |
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Today I replaced my monitor with an HDTV monitor which works fine during |
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the bios boot; works fine after X is booted; but is "shakey" and |
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unreliable during the OS boot. |
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I have worked around these symptoms by adding vga=ask to lilo.conf, and |
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then telling it to use vga. |
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Questions: |
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1. Anyone aware of a wiki or other gentoo "help" that describes how to |
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change the boot message "size" during boot? It is possible that I simply |
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added a framebuffer, but it seems that I changed some config. somewhere |
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as well. |
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2. Anyone have a workaround for using a new HDTV monitor with an older |
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ATI graphics card? |
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TIA |
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