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

[Steve Holmes]

On 01/02/2010 12:29 PM, arch at nezmer.info wrote:
>> KMS conflicts with vga,video.
>> What GPU do you have ?
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>
I have a generic mother boasrd with an AMD Athlon64 K8 1.6 Ghz processor 
and a Via Technologies VGA compatible controler. This info came to me 
courtesy of the lsmod command.:)

But I did some more digging and I got my full screen back. I had 
previously commented out the via line in 
/etc/modprobe.d/frame-buffer-blacklist.conf. So I re-enabled that entry 
by removing the # mark, put the 'insmod vbe' back in my grub.cfg and 
retained the vga=790 entry in the linux entry.

After doing all that, my higher resolution is working again. I don't 
seem to have much if any background information to support what I'm 
doing with FB support but I like having the higher resolution. It would 
be nice to have a fuller understanding of which modules are needed and 
which kernel parameters should still be used.

Anyway, thanks for indulging in my experimentation and messing about.