[NTLUG:Discuss] Keyboard beeps with SuSE 9.1

[Steve Baker]

Chris Cox wrote:

> 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.

That's interesting.

> 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.

Yeah - I'm not big on eye-candy.  Dumb text screens while
booting are fine by me.

I'll rip these out of my GRUB startup stuff and we'll see if
the problem recurrs.

Many thanks!

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