GRUB 2 vs. framebuffer

[Goh Lip]

On Sat, 12 Mar 2011 16:27:48 +0800, Niki Kovacs <contact at kikinovak.net>  
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm currently testing Ubuntu Server 10.04 LTS on a sandbox machine, an  
> old NEC Powermate with an NVidia GeForce 4000 video card.
>
> After the first reboot, the display is reduced to the upper left third  
> of the screen or so. The last time I've been using this machine, there  
> was a test install of Arch Linux on it, which had the same problem. Arch  
> defaults to the "old" GRUB (v. 0.97 IIRC), and I remember having solved  
> the problem by adding 'nomodeset vga=788' as parameters to the 'kernel'  
> line. Now I wonder how I can possibly achieve something similar with  
> GRUB 2.
>
> I read through the docs and so far, managed to have a partial success. I  
> added the following parameter: GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="nomodeset" and ran  
> update-grub. Now I already have a "full screen" display, but only in the  
> classical 80x25 console style.
>
> I wonder now how I could possible have the equivalent of 'vga=788'  
> output that uses the full screen, not only the upper left corner.
>
> Any suggestions for that?
>
> Niki
>


Niki, I do not have this problem, but this might help...
http://harrison3001.blogspot.com/2009/09/grub-2-graphical-boot-tips-to-set.html

I thought adding "gfxpayload=true" might be better, but I am not really  
sure, why don't you try out both and let us know what works 'better',  
(maybe either might work equally well).

Regards - Goh Lip

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