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