[NTLUG:Discuss] SuSE 8.2 startup screen resolution

Darin W. Smith darin_ext at darinsmith.net
Wed Jun 4 13:40:37 CDT 2003


On Wed, 04 Jun 2003 13:36:55 -0500, Chris Cox <cjcox at acm.org> wrote:
> I remember searching... seeing other posts similar to mine and just
> giving up on having it work.  There were some recommendations (changes
> to the fbdev stuff in the kernel)... I tried that, still couldn't
> get it to work... so I just went text on boot.  A reasonable test
> is to go to 512M if you can and see if everything works ok.
>
>

Oh yes, I went 512M on boot and it worked fine.  I then started trying to 
work my way down from 1GB to see how much RAM it would tolerate.  The 
answer is somewhere between 512 and 768M.  I'm thinking more like 512M.

So going text on boot made yours happy again?

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Darin W. Smith
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