Where is the text gone when removing 'quiet splash' while booting Gutsy LiveCD?

[Michael Bach (gmx)]

Hi Paul,

if it is still helpful, from [1] I got this table:

Screen   640x480     800x600     1024x768     1280x1024     1600x1200
Colors    ---------------------------
-------------------------------------------
 256     | 769         771          773            775              796
 32,768 | 784         787           790           793              797
 65,536 | 785         788           791           794              798
 16.8M  | 786        789           792           795              799

[1] http://www.knoppix.net/forum/viewtopic.php?p=36777


Mike

Paul Dufresne wrote:
> When booting the LiveCD, pressing F6 and removing 'quiet splash', I am
> expecting to see a lot
> of text while booting, more or less the equivalent of dmesg command.
> 
> But the screen keep being black, until the mouse cursor come on (until
> Xorg boot itself).
> 
> I believe Tribe-3 was/is doing this.
> I am using a daily-build from about one or two week old of Kubuntu
> Gutsy.
> 
> I don't fully remember if it has always done that.
> I don't think so.
> 
> Someone use that enough to remember if this is a new behaviour, and if
> so since when?
> It sure does not help to debug boot problems.
>