Where did my penguins go? - THAT'S LIFE

[Bill Davidsen]

Robert G. (Doc) Savage wrote:
> On Thu, 2009-12-31 at 12:15 -0500, Bill Davidsen wrote:
>> Sam Varshavchik wrote:
>>> g writes:
>>>
>>>> Richard Shaw wrote:
>>>>
> 
> Many thanks to all, but after trying all of the suggested VESA
> alternatives I've concluded that the nouveau driver sans penguins is
> vastly superior. Setting vga=0x37d for a starting text screen with a
> 1920x1200x32 resolution displayed the four penguins, but when startup
> switched to graphical mode the screen went solid black. Using the vesafb
> driver fixed that, but the result is S-L-O-W.
> 
If your LCD display is like most of mine, it takes a moment to change mode when 
the scan rate changes. The penguins come up early, it's possible that the 
display misses them. Note, I'm throwing that out for discussion, not stating it 
as a fact.

> The nouveau driver is a big improvement over nv, but it apparently lacks
> the ability to display core penguins after the startmenu. As I
> speculated in my original post, this seems to be an artifact of the
> nouveau driver. Considering the alternatives, I can accept that.
> 
> --Doc Savage
>   Fairview Heights, IL
> 


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