[CS-FSLUG] frambuffer options

Alvin Smith alvin at tux.org
Wed Feb 9 20:16:22 CST 2005


On Wednesday 09 February 2005 09:08 pm, john-thomas richards wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 09, 2005 at 08:50:51PM -0500, Alvin Smith wrote:
> > I am looking for the documentation on boot options for frambuffer mode.
> >
> > Problem:  All of the little icons, tux etc, scroll off the top of the
> > screen instead of remaining, like a heading.
> >
> > Current /boot/grub/menu.lst contains:
> >
> > kernel  /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.8-2-686 root=/dev/hda1 video=vesafb:ywrap,mtrr
> > vga=791 ro
> >
> > With the above images appear a disappear during boot, scrolling quickly
> > off the top of the screen.
>
> The penguin graphic is supposed to disappear in order to free up screen
> real estate.  What icons do you see?

I see tux, a hard drive, and a flower.

> Are you using the framebuffer 
> driver for X?

X is using nvidia driver.

-- 
peace,
Alvin Smith
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