Redhat Enterprise 5 Framebuffer

Yanick Quirion — Mon, 16 Apr 2007 19:59:15 GMT

Dear all,

I'm trying to active the framebuffer when I boot RHEL 5. I add the option VGA=791 to the kernel line of /etc/grub.conf.

When Redhat boot, I don't have any display until graphical enronment is loaded. I'm using more command line then gnome, and this is with I want to have a console at 1024x768 resolution.

Is there a way to make this working? I test it with kernel 2.6.18-8.1.1.el5 and 2.6.18-8.el5. Maybe a spefic driver is available for ATI ES1000 chipset.

Regards,
Yanick

Re: Redhat Enterprise 5 Framebuffer

Matti_Kurkela — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 10:01:31 GMT

Some systems don't have the VGA=791 mode available.

Change the VGA option to "vga=ask" and boot. It should display a list of detected VGA modes and allow you to choose. Try them out until you find one that works, then set the VGA option to that value.

MK

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