bootup screen resolution

themanwhowas · 09-09-2007, 02:47 PM

hey guys

When i boot fedora 7 for some reason it runs in something like 1280 X 1024 which my monitor can barely handle (lots of flickering and distortion). This lasts until i log in (where i have my normal resolution set on kde startup). my normal resolution is 1024 X 768. Is there a way to change the boot up resolution?

thanks

Nick_Battle · 09-10-2007, 06:45 AM

On SUSE, the boot screen resolution is set via mkinitrd using the -s option, which rebuilds the initial ram disk image for booting. It may not be the same on Fedora, but it's somewhere to start looking.

HTH,
-nick

jay73 · 09-10-2007, 07:09 AM

Add vga=791 to the kernel line in /boot/grub/menu.lst

themanwhowas · 09-10-2007, 11:16 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by jay73

Add vga=791 to the kernel line in /boot/grub/menu.lst

Worked a treat. thanks.

I didnt try your suggestion Nick_Battle. It scared me

Nick_Battle · 09-11-2007, 06:13 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by themanwhowas

I didnt try your suggestion Nick_Battle. It scared me

I know what you mean :-)

I think I tried doing something like the vga=xxx trick in SUSE, but that didn't effect the splash screen (graphics) that "cover" the boot process. Changing the settings with mkinitrd causes it to choose a different resolution of splash graphic too, which looks nicer. (This is all from my memory, but I think it's true).

Cheers,
-nick

archtoad6 · 10-24-2007, 11:05 AM

Does anyone have a link to a list of those "vga=" codes? Haven't found a complete one w/ Google, & I need one for a wide screen monitor.