Framebuffer and display resolution

hi,
I have an onboard graphiccard with an Intel 945GME chipset. My display allows a resolution of 1024x600 pixel. But how do I find out which is the correct value for 1024x600 to setup the correct vga value in my /boot/grub/menu.lst to activate the framebuffer and show those nice archlinux-logos while booting? It seems it always just gets a 800x600 resolution and a bad color-depth.

Hmmm, well you could look into the hwinfo docs and see whether there's some compile-time option you need to supply to make --framebuffer work. (It could be that the functionality is now gone, but maybe it isn't.)
If that doesn't lead anywhere, you could try this (annoying amount of work but you'd only need to do it once): install a minimal Arch on a fresh partition or USB key, don't update the kernel to 2.6.27, and compile/run the hwinfo that's on AUR.

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Yes, CA.
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Hello guys and thanks for your answers.
I thought that my problem was linked to UEFI, so I reinstalled the os with BIOS and MBR. Unfortunately I had the same problem, with one difference: the auto/default resolution of GRUB and FrameBuffer was 800x600 instead of 1920x1080 for UEFI.
About the nouveau driver, I need 3D acceleration to play games so I need the proprietary driver.
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xterm & sleep 10
I reinstalled the nvidia driver and reboot : GRUB, then framebuffer for 1 second, then a black screen.
I tried to log in: login + [Enter] + password + [Enter]
I waited 2s then I entered the "startx" command.
And the xterm window appeared. And the best is after the 10s the X server shuts down and the framebuffer was back !!! Unbelievable !!!
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Page 13
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