[arch-general] kernel vga setting problems

[Aaron Schaefer]

On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 1:01 AM, Ralph Alvy <ralph at ralphalvy.com> wrote:
> Why is it that after the last few upgrades with pacman I can't use
> any 'vga=nnn' setting anymore in my grub menu.lst? I used to
> use 'vga=792' 'vga=795', if memory serves me here. I keep ending up with a
> message at boot time that tells me the video mode selected is no
> recognized.


Are you using an older Nvidia card that had support dropped for it in
the latest release?  If that is the case, there are specific packages
for those cards available.

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Aaron "ElasticDog" Schaefer