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archibald haddock
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 Posted: Sun Aug 03, 2008 6:57 pm Post subject: console display much dots |
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Hello,
my Gentoo haves the problem, that the startup console and all others are displaying all single white dots. something like that, but allover the screen:
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In the columns are the dots realy close together, it is not jsut a dot in the line, there are then in a column.
This makes the text near unreadable, but all the other things(X, eth0 ...), work quite well after adding the ethernet module and modding xorg.conf.
Is there any solution for that? |
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muhsinzubeir
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| Posted: Sun Aug 03, 2008 8:56 pm Post subject: |
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en this is not a bad keyboard or so?like the "." is stuck ...very stupid of me to ask but i cant help it 
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archibald haddock
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| Posted: Mon Aug 04, 2008 6:14 pm Post subject: |
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No, that are not keybord dots, that are maybe better called white pixels allover the screen.
And keyboard works normally all the time. |
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bunder
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| Posted: Mon Aug 04, 2008 7:33 pm Post subject: |
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does this also happen to the grub loader screen? it could be possible you tried loading a splashimage that isn't there. if that's the case, try re-emerging grub.
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archibald haddock
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| Posted: Mon Aug 04, 2008 8:23 pm Post subject: |
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I am actually compiling something big, so I can not restart, but it looks, that you are right, the link were on (hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz, but there is actually no image, just on /usr/share/grub/splash.xpm.gz , i will test it, after the compiling had finshed. Thank you.
Yeah, now it works, but I have another problem with grub:
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timeout 30
#splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
title=Gentoo Linux - 2008 Kernel
root (hd0,0)
kernel /kernel-genkernel-x86-2.6.24-gentoo-r5 root=/dev/ram0 init=/linuxrc ramdisk=8192 real_root=/dev/sda3
initrd /initramfs-genkernel-x86-2.6.24-gentoo-r5
title=Gentoo Linux - My Kernel
root (hd0,0)
kernel /kernel-genkernel-x86-2.6.24-gentoo-r8 root=/dev/ram0 init=/linuxrc ramdisk=8192 real_root=/dev/sda3
initrd /initramfs-genkernel-x86-2.6.24-gentoo-r8 |
My Kernel will not but, wth the message /dev/sda3 is not there (or something like that), but the Gentoo Installtion Kernel will, with the same real_root. I dont really understand this. |
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duderonomy
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| Posted: Mon Aug 11, 2008 3:26 am Post subject: |
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I experienced this too.
The point in time, which the O.P. was indicating that the messages
on the display go from "garbled" to readable was after: | Code: | | Setting user font ... [ ok ] |
I am seeing the same thing after using the installer on LiveCD 2008.0-r1 (x86).
How to fix this? Perhaps a kernel config in the console font area?
Thanks!
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agent_jdh
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| Posted: Tue Aug 12, 2008 12:01 am Post subject: |
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Re-emerge grub. Seems the problem was that the ebuild was not copying the splash image into /boot/grub/. Now it's been fixed.
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duderonomy
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| Posted: Wed Aug 13, 2008 1:20 pm Post subject: |
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Alternatively, one could also try copying the compressed splash image file (from... hmm, where was it? /usr/share/grub) to the /boot partition, or wherever the directive in the grub.conf points. Later, this is what I did; which did not re-build and re-install everything related to grub.
Does anyone have any good links for modifying console fonts and other visual boot time stuff?
Thx
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