Terminal not readable at bootup [solved]

gnat79 · Last edited by gnat79 on Sat Oct 07, 2006 4:23 am; edited 1 time in total

I have a couple computers that I'm having trouble with. I boot fine, grub loads fine and I can see the grub menu. Then I hit enter, and the screen becomes fuzzy. I know it's printing the standard stuff because I can see some green that looks like the "Ok". But I can't read what's going on until it says "setting terminal encoding to UTF-8". Is there some way to fix this? On my other computer which is a laptop, I just see a blank screen... and then it pops up with the terminal encoding thing about halfway through booting.

I'm compiling my own kernels on both of these computers. I use the gentoo sources. Both of them have pentium processors, and the one has a built in video card. The other has an ati radeon mobility 9000. I suspect this has nothing to do with the problem, but what the heck...

Thanks!
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davascript · l33t Joined: 07 Apr 2004 Posts: 618 Location: Pennsylvania

Are you compiling the correct framebuffer information into your kernel. Use the vesa-tng if you have nvidia.

wynn · Advocate Joined: 01 Apr 2005 Posts: 2421 Location: UK

Perhaps the kernel default is not set to UTF-8?

gnat79 · Posted: Fri Oct 06, 2006 8:33 pm Post subject:

(iso8859-15) Default NLS Option

changed to utf8

Should i have vesafb or vesafb-tng for a built-in graphics card?

Thanks!
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davascript · l33t Joined: 07 Apr 2004 Posts: 618 Location: Pennsylvania

either will work they are pretty much the same from a user level except for the ease of configuration for the vesa-tng.

gnat79 · Posted: Sat Oct 07, 2006 4:23 am Post subject:

Alright, I kind of have it working. It still goes fuzzy for a few moments while booting, but quickly becomes readable.

I still don't understand why the first few lines of "booting kernel" stuff don't look right, but I'm happy now.

Thanks!
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davascript · l33t Joined: 07 Apr 2004 Posts: 618 Location: Pennsylvania

please put solved into the subject line of this post.

gnat79 · Posted: Sat Oct 07, 2006 7:22 pm Post subject:

Umm... I did, and before you asked me to :-)

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davascript · l33t Joined: 07 Apr 2004 Posts: 618 Location: Pennsylvania

sorry, i didnt notice

gnat79 · Posted: Mon Oct 09, 2006 3:07 pm Post subject:

No, really it's not a problem, I didn't mean to sound sarcastic. In fact, most people do need to be told to add it, so you were perfectly correct to mention it to me. And thanks again for all your help!
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