[arch-general] kernel vga setting problems

[Ian Snow]

On Monday 23 June 2008 15:56:04 Aaron Schaefer wrote:
> 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.
>
> --
> Aaron "ElasticDog" Schaefer

Appending edd=off to your kernel line in menu.lst may help
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