[plug] Video chipset on HP Pavilion N3350

[Richard Meyer]

On Sat, 2005-08-27 at 20:57 +0800, Chris Caston wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I used the Morphix light live CD to detect my hardware and install my
> system on the Pavilion N3350 notebook.
> 
> I believe the chipset is:
> 
> Trident Cyberblase l7 AGP graphics chipset
> 
> I'm using grub as the bootloader, xfce for the GUI and it looks like I'm
> still running xfree86 4.3.0 but no doubt this will change when I sync
> the system with the current sid.  
> 
> I get the following when booting:
> 
> kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda1 vga=0x317 noapic acpi=off
> apm=power-off vga=791 splash=silent quiet
> [Linux-bzImage, setup=0x1400, size=014587d]
> 
> You passed an undefined mode number.
> 
> Press <RETURN> to see video modes available, ,<SPACE> to continue or
> wait 30 secs
> 
> Video adapter: VESA VGA
> Mode: COLSxROWS:
> 
> -Insert menu of hex and col x row listings-
> 
> 
> How can I get rid of this? 

I dunno whether this'll help, but you have two "vga=" lines there. They
mean the same thing, but just having them there may be confusing.

Otherwise, I don't know   ;-)
> 
> If I just press space it does boot fine.
> 
> Should I be using something better than VESA though? How can I set this
> up?
> 
> thanks,
> 
> Chris Caston

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