Newbie: kernel/init messages at boot times: SOLVED (but to be continued)

[Derek Broughton]

Ulrich Grün wrote:

> The problem of the blacked tty was caused by a wrong vga=### option.
> Before Kubuntu, I used as kernel option 'vga=0x31a' (with SuSE). When I
> use this with Kubuntu, all tty's are black. When I use 'vga=791' (as Kaj
> suggested) result is black as well. So, now I have to figure out how to
> use a reasonable console resolution that works. (and how strange that it
> doesn't work anymore . . .)

Did you try just not using "vga=" at all?  It's a workaround, and shouldn't
be needed for most machines, and one would expect that as the time between
the release of your computer and the latest kernel increases, it should be
less and less necessary.
-- 
derek