Hi Kam,
Thanks for the quick reply. I don't see anything relevant to this in the fedora-list archives. Maybe I'm missing something? It surprises me that nobody else has reported this problem, since it's so repeatable and specific - boot with a 2.6.9 kernel and all is well, boot with 2.6.10 and the display is nasty. Maybe something to do with the specific display drivers (i830 under X11)? I don't know if they have anything to do with rhgb.
I can disable rhgb for now, yes, but I'd like to sort out where the problem really lies. I've compared boot logs for the two kernels, and I don't see any relevant differences. I hate to just give up and disable functionality because of a kernel upgrade. :-)
-Rich
Kam Leo wrote:
On Sat, 15 Jan 2005 09:57:52 -0500, Rich Ibbotson 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
