I think that both gfxmode and gfxpayload should be tied up together. Its true that for some the gfxmode doesn't work.
@mabawsa, some hints I know. grub can only set the video mode through bios. It often happens that bios doesn't expose the native resulution of the laptop, but only a list of well known resulutions. Usually this is 640x480, 800x600,1024x768,.... So, when you try 1280x800, your bios reject it. So I guess it would be safe to use 1024x768 (or 800x600 for small screens). Now you say a garbaged mess. I know why this happens. Grub puts console in graphical mode, kernel also knows it is in the graphical mode, but then something (usplash I am looking at you) tells the graphic card to go back to the text mode, but the kernel doesn't know anything about it. Try booting without 'splash' boot option What graphical card you have? -- [karmic] please add config option for 'set gfxpayload' to /etc/default/grub https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/416772 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
