[arch-general] Video Resolution, Grub2 and Kernel 2.6.32

Steve Holmes steve.holmes88 at gmail.com
Sat Jan 2 13:38:33 EST 2010


When I installed grub2 a short while back, I was using the kernel 
2.6.31.6 and I enjoyed a full screen of 1024.768 32K color depth.  I 
followed the steps outlined here 
<http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/GRUB2#Setting_the_framebuffer_resolution> 
to the letter and all was great.

But when the kernel26 package upgraded to 2.6.32.2, This functionality 
broke.  I ended up having to remove the video related stuff from my grub 
line to get my system to boot.  When I say this didn't work anymore, 
basically my system wouldn't boot and I end up with a blank screen showing.

When I experimented by removing the insmod statement and using vga=790 
by itself, the best I get is a 30 line display with 80 columns width.

Anyone know what changed? It would appear that we may need to update the 
wiki page with new info for grub2 and video resolution.



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