[ALUG] Re: Suse 10.1 has installed but ....

[cl at isbd.net]

On Tue, Oct 03, 2006 at 10:41:25PM +0100, Wayne Stallwood wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-10-02 at 20:00 +0100, cl at isbd.net wrote:
> > If I boot in Suse's "safe mode" the normal login: prompt appears and,
> > in addition, I can log in and run startx to get X windows up.
> > 
> > So, it's all working pretty well really except for the default console
> > mode. Does anyone have any ideas how to remedy that? 
> 
> I am unsure what the Suse safe mode boot does, but it's a pretty safe
> bet that the standard Suse boot enables the framebuffer console and the
> safe one doesn't (amongst other things).
> 
> I wouldn't mind betting that's where your problem is. Either your
> graphics chipset doesn't like vesa framebuffer modes, the kernel doesn't
> have the correct framebuffer modules or the default resolution of the
> framebuffer is putting your monitor out of signal range (although
> normally the monitor tells you this) 
> 
Yes, you're probably right.

> So a quick fix would be to add a vga=normal to the /boot/grub/menu.lst
> file for the default boot line.
> 
OK, thanks.  If I stay with Suse I'll investigate.  However as I'm
currently playing 'distribution a minute' I'll leave it for the moment
as it's not really an issue now I have a workaround.

Thanks for the ideas.

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Chris Green (chris at halon.org.uk)