Tuesday, July 31, 2007

Getting rid of the boot splash and getting a decent resolution for the framebuffer to boot!

edit the menu.lst file in /boot/grub (or similar)

the line you are looking for is
/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.20-16-generic root=UUID=6e9d6372-8bd5-4bd9-aed8-0329837cf47f ro splash vga=794 quiet

Take away splash and quiet.

To set the screen resolution to 1024x768, insert into the appropriate line: "vga=791"

Some common frambuffer resolutions are:
640x480 - 785
800x600 - 788
1024x768 - 791
1152x864 - 355
1280x1024 - 794
1600x1200 - 798

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