Plymouth on ATI and nVidia

Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski D.Mierzejewski at icm.edu.pl
Tue Nov 4 13:49:49 UTC 2008


On Tue, Nov 04, 2008 at 02:44:55PM +0100, Gianluca Cecchi wrote:
> On Thu, 30 Oct 2008 13:56:54 +0200 Aioanei Rares wrote:
> >...It DID error out and give me a list of scanned VGA options. I
> > selectedone of them at random (vga=0x323) and "Graphical Plymouth" came
> > to life in all its glory.
> 
> I'm testing F10 x86_64 (updated at today) with two machines:
> - on a machine with an Asus EN 8600 GT Silent and I confirm that the
> splash is spectacular with vga=0x318 and a 22" wide monitor.
> It worths while to have something for detecting this!
> - Instead, on a Dell laptop XPS M1330 with a GeForce 8400M GS I'm only
> able to get the line at bottom... ;-(
> tried some configs but noway. The screen is a 1280x800 capable 13.3" inches.
> On both the driver is the one from rpmfusion:
> akmod-nvidia-177.80-1.fc10.x86_64
> xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-libs-177.80-1.fc10.x86_64
> kmod-nvidia-2.6.27.4-68.fc10.x86_64-177.80-1.fc10.x86_64
> xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-177.80-1.fc10.x86_64
> 
> Any hint for the xps? I tried 0x323, 0x365....

Try vga=ask and see what modes you have available.

Regards,
R.

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