On Jun 22, 2006, at 2:10 PM, Robert Citek wrote: > > On Jun 22, 2006, at 12:26 PM, A.M. wrote: > >> Which video card is this? > > It's a Matrox card, IIRC. I'm not at the machine right now, so I'll > have to get more details later if needed. > >> Which GRUB version? > > v0.95 which comes with Knoppix 4.0.2. > >> Obviously, it should be resorting to text mode on your hardware >> which it isn't. > > I'm not that familiar with how graphics cards work. But it almost > seems as those the default mode on the card is broken whereas the > other modes still work.
That's certainly possible- I assumed grub was trying to use the framebuffer for the splashimage- I guess it's not. Short of making sure your card has the latest firmware, there isn't much you can do if the default text mode is bonked. ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ AgentM [EMAIL PROTECTED] ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ _______________________________________________ CWE-LUG mailing list [email protected] http://www.cwelug.org/ http://www.cwelug.org/archives/ http://www.cwelug.org/mailinglist/
