On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 11:24:46AM -0500, John Brier wrote: > Timothy Murphy wrote: >> I did actually read that, but didn't understand it. >> >> In the same section, I found the sentence >> "Currently, only Radeon R500 and higher users get kernel modesetting by >> default" >> particularly puzzling. >> >> Does this really mean that "plymouth" only works properly >> with this particular kind of ATI card? >> >> Strange ... > > I think you are correct. Since plymouth needs kernel mode setting to > work properly(without vesafb) it only works out of the box with those > devices. However plymouth can work with most graphics if you select > vesafb by using the vga= boot parameter. That's how I read that anyway. > > I can tell you though that vga=0x318 works here on a nvidia graphics > card and a 19" LCD with natie resolution 1280x1024.. also 0x31B is the > proper resolution You can use 'vga=ask' to see which modes will work natively with your particular video card. For instance, on one of my machines it turns out that 'vga=0x361' is the optimal mode. -- Paul W. Frields http://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 http://redhat.com/ - - - - http://pfrields.fedorapeople.org/ irc.freenode.net: stickster @ #fedora-docs, #fedora-devel, #fredlug
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