[Leaplist] LCD = Out of Range problem -SOLVED_Debian AMD64

[Whit Hansell]

Steve,
Gracias amigo......  It works......

Stephen Cullum wrote:
> I had a problem a while back with my laptop viewing my virtual 
> consoles they were black but the Gui console was ok. It also uses a 
> nVidia graphic card. There was a bug in the nVidia driver. It eventual 
> was fixed but for a while after every grub update after a kernel 
> update I had to add vga=791 on my kernal line in my grub menu.lst 
> file. It looked like this.
>
> title Ubuntu, kernel 2.6.15-22-386
> root (hd0,4)
> kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.15-22-386 root=/dev/hda5 ro quiet splash vga=791
> initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.15-22-386
> savedefault
> boot
>
> The normal display of 640X480 wouldn't display. The vga=791 set the 
> display to 1280X1024 which worked.
>
> there are other display modes
>
> (This is notes on vesa frame buffer settings. Got from Linus 
> Annoyances For Geeks. Today's date is 6/26/2006.
>
> Frame Buffer know-how is at 
> http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Framebuffer-HOWTo.html  .
>
> Table 5-3. VESA video modes
>
> Bits    640x480    800x600    1024x76  1280x1024  1600x1200
>
> 8    769    771    773     775         796
>
> 16    785    788    791      794         798
>
> 32    786    789    792     795         799      )
>
> I have used this on the menu.lst , for grub on the kernel line , used
>
> vga=791 , to pass this vesa parameter to the kernel.
>
> It would be easy to try this by editing your menu.lst grub conf. file.
I did what you did just in case it would work and it did.  In fact, I 
used "vga=785" to get to hopefully, the 640 X 480 resolution.  I can't 
tell specifically if it is at that res. but it is definitely larger than 
what it was when I tried it at 791.  I have vision problems and could 
hardly read that one.  So tried lower numbers. 

Phil, try it. It worked for me and I've got an ATI card...Thanks again, 
Steve.
whit



> Phil Barnett wrote:
>> Whit Hansell wrote:
>>> hey guys,
>>> Lookin' for an answer to a prob' I've run up against.  amonth ago or 
>>> so on a Sat. AM, the power dropped and my mobo was dead when it came 
>>> back on.  So went to ComppUSA and bought a new one, an Asus M3A78-CM 
>>> and put an AMD Athlon X2 5200 2.7Ghz processor on it and 4 G RAM.  
>>> Onboard video and sound.
<snip>
>> Well, I have a tiny bit of input.
>>
>> Somewhere in an upgrade in the last few months, my laptop (HP, nVidia 
>> video) started getting a blank black screen when I press Ctrl-Alt-F2-F6
>>
>> Ctrl-F1 brings me back to the GUI. (KDE)
>>
>> ps ax in a gui terminal shows that I have 5 instances of 
>> /sbin/mingetty running, but I can't seem to switch to them.
>>
>> I'm guessing that I have the same problem on totally different hardware.
>>
>
>

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