[plug] Video chipset on HP Pavilion N3350

[Russell Steicke]

On Sat, Aug 27, 2005 at 08:57:15PM +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? 

Remove both the vga=x args from the command line in
/boot/grub/menu.lst.  That will give you plain VGA 80x25 consoles.
Alternatively, for consoles with more but smaller characters, follow
the instructions and select a mode, remember its number and put that
in a vga=x arg.



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Russell Steicke

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