[SOLVED]Video problems and more
Some months ago, I posted about my video problems in trying to install Arch on several different computers. Getting no good results I gave up, but recently made another attempt. Right now, I have Arch installed on my test computer which is a MSI Celeron, with onboard S3 ProSavage video, one monitor. I do not use a desktop, only the JWM window manager, no icons, wallpaper or any other crap. Here, Arch is great. Ultimately, I want to get Arch set up on my workhorse which is an Asus P4, with no onboard video using dual monitors. I might add that this ASUS board, with two old nVidia cards, AGP and PCI ran dual monitors with FreeBsd and Debian.
Herein lies the problem:
I want Arch NOT to mess with the video until I start xorg regardless of whatever AGP and PSI card I might be using. Please stick with the BIOS resolution. This is how it was with every other linux I have installed. I have tried several video cards, AGP nVidia, ATI, and Matrox, as well as PCI nVidia and ATI, all with different results. Using most of the cards, I get a console (no, haven't messed with xorg yet) that appears in the upper left corner so small I can't read it. Or else, there's a white square that obliterates the upper left of the console, The only time this doesn't happen is if i use the matrox AGP card or an ATI PCI card not in conjunction with another card.
I read to use the vga=xxx in the grub menu list as well as kernel boot option set to nomodset, but either I don't know how to do this, or else it doesn't work for me. What is KMS, and how to use it?
I want to resolve this issue before attempting to get dual monitors set up on the Asus board. Any help is appreciated
Last edited by Ron74 (2011-03-18 16:17:45)
bohoomil wrote:
Ron74 wrote: What is KMS, and how to use it?
KMS
I don't quite get it: does the picture get messed up as you described after the kernel loads? Do you have normal BIOS logo / text before the bootloader starts?
As Arch takes over the boot process, the resolution becomes somewhat higher, and then when comes the logon screen it's so small, in the upper left, that I can hardly read it. This problem is well documented on the search engines. I have read where some users want a higher console resolution, and others want a lower resolution. I have installed Slack, FreeBSD, Debian, TinyCore and others, without this problem. Apparently, Arch is deciding what screen resolution a user should have in the console. This would be more understandable were it not that there is no consistancy between various video cards. Yes, I'm guessing that this happens after the kernel loads. But how come the discrepancy between different video cards?
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