Breezy installer resolution

Alvin Thompson alvin-ubuntu at thompsonlogic.com
Wed Sep 14 02:18:33 CDT 2005


there's no way to change the font after the kernel has loaded?

-alvin

On Tue, 2005-09-13 at 10:45 -0700, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 13, 2005 at 10:52:51PM +1000, Carey O'Shea wrote:
> > This problem with usplash is annoying also, a user can't use usplash 
> > without their screen being distorted. It's either usplash with screen 
> > distortion, or no usplash at all (with having to have the vga= option).
> > 
> > Windows, Fedora, SUSE, Linspire, etc, don't have this problem of vga= 
> > with console text and splash screens on these laptops, so there must be 
> > a way around it that also works for those Intel chipsets.
> 
> If you know what Windows does to avoid this problem on a particular laptop,
> we'd like to hear about it.  Fedora and SuSE make different tradeoffs (such
> as using the X server or a complex kernel patch), and I think Linspire
> follows a similar approach but I haven't looked.
> 
> -- 
>  - mdz

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