TRAIN_00406.eml

NoneNone> On Sun, Apr 11, 2010 at 3:35 PM, Tom H <tomh0665@csmining.org> wrote:
>> On Sun, Apr 11, 2010 at 3:01 AM, Phil Requirements
>> <simultaneous@comcast.net> wrote:
>
>> Just in case you are running grub2, the /etc/grub/default variables
>> for framebuffer are
>
> I needed that hint, too. Between muckings around with GRUB's config I
> keep forgetting that the settings are not in menu.lst, nor in
> /etc/grub.d but in /etc/grub/defaults. IMO the whole new GRUB system
> is suffering from incredible bloat, but maybe I'm just not seeing the
> benefits.
> BTW, if "vga=" doesn't cut it any more, how is stuff passed to the
> kernel nowadays?

You only need to edit /etc/default/grub and run update-grub in order
to modify /boot/grub/grub.cfg (theoretically; unfortunately, you have
to edit /etc/grub.d/10_linux or /etc/grub.d/30_os-prober to change the
default generation of the menu entry names or prevent os-prober from
picking up a windows recovery partition),

The squeeze and sid kernels set the graphic mode through Kernel-based
Mode Setting (KMS). I only use headless and Xless boxes so I have not
looked into whether the kernel uses grub2's GRUB_GFXMODE OR
GRUB_GFXPAYLOAD_LINUX variables to set the video mode. KMS can be
turned off in grub.cfg with either "nomodeset" (possibly superceded)
or "<video>.modeset=0" where video=i915|i945|nouveau|radeon... but I
have only gleaned this from reading Fedora and Ubuntu stuff.


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