On Dec 2, 2007 7:38 PM, James G. Sack (jim) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At Saturday's bookstore ifest, there was a problem booting Eric's > presario 2500(?,2598?) with ubuntu 7.10 after install. The boot was > taking several minutes and showing just a black screen (although > Ctrl-Alt-F1 switched to showing progress messages which helped alleviate > the doubts and boredom ;-)) Attempts to implement one "known fix" by > diddling something associated with the splash screen in Grub's menu.lst > did not help. > > Eric found a posting in a ubuntu forum which worked, and changed the > boot time to more like 20 seconds, and it now shows the splash, too. > > This seems to be the posting > http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=3843205&postcount=32 > I haven't tried to understand the underlying problem. > -- comments welcome :-) > > Eric still has kplug-list problems, but did report his success to me. so > I'm posting this on his behalf, and for the benefit of others who > observed the problem Saturday, as well as others who may see similar > problems.
There is an extensive table of these magic numbers at: <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VESA_BIOS_Extensions> under the heading "Linux video mode numbers". The number most frequently mentioned in the Ubuntu forum seems to be 791, which is 1024x768, 16-bit color. carl -- carl lowenstein marine physical lab u.c. san diego [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
