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 Posted: Mon Feb 13, 2006 2:35 pm Post subject: Dim video at startup |
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When my system boots it comes up with the correct resolution, but with dim video. How do I get the initial screen text to be bright?
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what's your hardware? what do you mean by dim video? what login manager/desktop environment/window manager are you running.
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bkv2k
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| Posted: Mon Feb 13, 2006 3:15 pm Post subject: |
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| XenoTerraCide wrote: | | what's your hardware? what do you mean by dim video? what login manager/desktop environment/window manager are you running. |
Hmmm...pretty new here, so don't know if I know how to answer, but here's a try. I'm logging in to bash...not using a graphical system. I have vga hardware, using a vesa driver. By dim I mean that white and colors are not as bright as when the Gentoo boot disk is running things. Also, I'm trying to get X configured and the instant I do anything that starts X, the video intensity switches to bright-white, bright-colors, even if X isn't running (as in I've shut it down and returned to console mode or it gives an error message and fails to start). What I'm interested in is trying to get the bright intensity of the text turned on when I'm running in console mode.
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you mean you want the nice pretty purplish screen on the disk right? your in monochrome right? you want the framebuffer mode with fbsplash right?
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like this one poor kid doesn't even know what he's asking about. no offense kid. know what else is the sign of the n00b posting in the wrong thread. I wish I had mod power's because of the sheer number of thread's I want to move. Like a guy posting a little howto in the networking thread. it's a support thread not the docs tips & tricks thread. or some how do I get X to work in the installation thread. or how 'bout this thread. It's definitely in the wrong place.
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bkv2k
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| XenoTerraCide wrote: | | you mean you want the nice pretty purplish screen on the disk right? your in monochrome right? you want the framebuffer mode with fbsplash right? |
When I'm using the command interpreter (bash in console mode), I don't care whether I have color or not. My white, though, looks like gray. I want to to be white so it's easier to read. |
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interesting... now we're getting somewhere. is this a laptop? post your grub.conf, need to see how you have vesafb set up.
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bkv2k
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| Posted: Mon Feb 13, 2006 4:17 pm Post subject: |
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| XenoTerraCide wrote: | | interesting... now we're getting somewhere. is this a laptop? post your grub.conf, need to see how you have vesafb set up. |
My machine's tied up compiling Gnome, so I can't get to my grub.conf, but here's the part that I used to configure the video:
vga=0x305 video=vesafb:mtrr,ywrap
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if your in X press ctrl+alt+F2. if your not press alt+F2 that will give you another tty terminal if you need more F1-F6 are available. is your resolution working right? I forget what 0x305 is. and you might want to check the other tty terminal's in the livecd just to make sure they look different.
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| Posted: Mon Feb 13, 2006 4:43 pm Post subject: |
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| XenoTerraCide wrote: | | if your in X press ctrl+alt+F2. if your not press alt+F2 that will give you another tty terminal if you need more F1-F6 are available. is your resolution working right? I forget what 0x305 is. and you might want to check the other tty terminal's in the livecd just to make sure they look different. |
If I understand the installation documentation, 0x305 means 1024x768 resolution with 256k of video ram. My resolution is correct, just dim. Here's an interesting thing: video=vesafb:mtrr,ywrap,1024x768-32@85
If I use this in my grub.conf file, I get bright text, but 640x480 resolution. If I put 0x303 (800x600, 256k) in my original instead of 0x305, I get the 800x600 resolution when I boot, but still the dimmed intensity. |
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| Code: | | kernel /vmlinuz root=/dev/sda3 vga=0x318 video=vesafb:ywrap,mtrr,1024x768-32@85 |
try that note: it may mean 256 K but it also means 256 colors, actually it may be less than that it may only be 8-bit color. humor me though and try mine.
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also post the output of dmesg | tail
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Moved from Installing Gentoo to Kernel & Hardware.
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| XenoTerraCide wrote: | | Code: | | kernel /vmlinuz root=/dev/sda3 vga=0x318 video=vesafb:ywrap,mtrr,1024x768-32@85 |
try that note: it may mean 256 K but it also means 256 colors, actually it may be less than that it may only be 8-bit color. humor me though and try mine. |
I tried this setting. My system complains when it's trying to boot and makes me select a video mode before it will complete the boot process. And your right, it's 256K colors not size of memory. Sorry, brain-twitch on my part. |
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| Posted: Tue Feb 14, 2006 5:09 pm Post subject: |
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| XenoTerraCide wrote: | | like this one poor kid doesn't even know what he's asking about. |
Is there any particular reason for your condescension? |
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there was I was in an ornary mood and can't take back mistakes. original post on this was vague however. and that is all that existed when I posted that. I apologize to bkv2k for saying that. however he still has not told me anything of his hardware.
I need you to and then post the output of vbetest.
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