[NTLUG:Discuss] Keyboard beeps with SuSE 9.1

[Chris Cox]

Steve Baker wrote:
...
> Ah!  So that's what Chris was saying when he told me to remove 'desktop'
> from the boot line in my GRUB config file.
> 
 >KB said
>> You haven't run into the framebuffer stuff with your job?  I only ask 
>> because I know you do a lot of graphic stuff on linux with your job.  
>> Oh well, as you said earlier, "so many man pages, so little time." ;-)
> 
> 
> Well, I do OpenGL graphics stuff - and when you do that, the actual
> framebuffer is buried deep beneath multiple layers of hardware and
> API's.
> 
> The thing of which you and Chris are talking is what goes on during
> boot when none of the appropriate graphics drivers are loaded yet.

Alright... several things.

1. desktop on the boot line (menu.lst)

This is for the latency patches... it's supposed to help with
multimedia in particular.. HOWEVER, in practice, it simply messes
up WAY too many drivers.  Can cause a WORLD of headaches... IMHO,
this should NOT be the default.  I've never seen the desktop
option help.. only hinder.

2. splash=0 vga=normal on the boot line (menu.lst)

The framebuffer can certainly cause issues (really depends on the
card).  In particular fbdev is very buggy.  I've had good luck
with vesa... but in general, if you're plan is to run an
accelerated driver once into X11, I'd disable the framebuffer'd
boot up... just so it's not an unwelcome variable.