For framebuffer modes other than 80x25 to function, the GX260 BIOS' Onboard Video Buffer usually has to be set to 8MB. Leaving it at the default 1MB usually does not work for the onboard 845G graphics chip. Now in a fresh install of Kubuntu Intrepid 8.10 from the alternate CD, I find vga=0x305, vga=788, vga=0x31a & vga=0x317 all give working framebuffer tty[1-6]s.
OTOH, regardless whether the grub kernel line contains either splash, nosplash or splash=off, with or without quiet, nothing shows up on the display except a blinking cursor until X/KDM starts, though on Ctrl- Alt-F1 after KDM appears there are init messages preceding the login prompt. Furthermore, actually logging into KDE resulted in a totally locked up system that required power cycling to recover, until after I ran 'apt- get update; apt-get upgrade'. -- Ubuntu 7.04 Feisty Fawn Console has only one vesafb VGA mode 640x480 on Dell Optiplex GX260 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/111840 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
