On Sat, 15 Jan 2005 09:57:52 -0500, Rich Ibbotson <richibb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I'm still seeing serious graphical nastiness in the boot process with > kernels 2.6.10-1.8 and 2.6.10-1.9. In fact, even a vanilla 2.6.10 > kernel from www.kernel.org shows the same problem. > > Is there some way to get debugging information from rhgb? Or is there a > better place to ask this question? > > thanks for any info, > Rich Ibbotson > > Rich Ibbotson wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > I'm seeing display problems during the graphical boot process with > > kernel 2.6.10-1.8 (I'm running Fedora Core 2). The problem is that > > the active display is shifted down about 2 cm (top 2cm is scrambled > > pixels) only during the graphical boot. Once the system finishes > > booting into runlevel 5, the display is fine - no scrambled area, and > > the entire display is used. This problem appears only using this > > kernel; the display looks correct during graphical boot of kernel > > 2.6.9-1.11_FC2 and kernel-2.6.8-1.521. > > > > Has anyone else seen this sort of behavior? > > > > This is on a Gateway 200 laptop, the video card is reported as Intel > > 82852/855GM Integrated Graphics Device. > > > > thanks for any advice, > > Rich > > Rich, Check the list archives regarding booting issues and rhgb. For a quick fix, edit /etc/grub.conf and remove rhgb from the line that begins with kernel. rhgb will not be used the next time you boot. --Kam
