Fedora 9 Preview
Sebastian Vahl
ml at deadbabylon.de
Sat Apr 19 16:01:13 UTC 2008
Am Fri, 18 Apr 2008 21:13:02 -0400
schrieb Jim <mickeyboa at sbcglobal.net>:
> Scott Robbins wrote:
> > On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 08:20:08PM -0400, Jim wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> >> laptop has a VIA CX700M2 Unichrome
> >> chipset but I don't think Linux has a driver for it yet. the Video
> >> is normally run with a 800x600 Vesafb driver, how can I set
> >> the video resolution before starting boot process ?
> >>
> >
> > I believe on a FreeBSD box, I was able to get one of those Unichrome
> > thingies working by choosing via as the driver. (Manually editing
> > xorg.conf).
> >
> > N.B. It was a different cheap onboard card (PCChips MB in a tower)
> > but might be worth a shot anyway.
> >
> >
> >
> Thanks for that info.
> But do you have any Ideal howto set video before before boot process
> starts, and pass to kernel "vesa 800x600" ,
> so I can get video, to get Fedora 9-KDE-live to install on
> harddrive.
You could pass "xdriver=vesa" to the isolinux boot prompt.
Sebastian
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