Other Help Topics :: Screen messed up, and

Thanks, I'll try that.

Hey thanks, that fixed the problem, even though it didn't ask me anything about my screen.

Quote (roberts @ Nov. 05 2006,11:04)

At the very first boot prompt from floppy:

boot: dsl xsetup

Also at the first boot prompt, you can press F2 or F3 and try booting with other vga codes as well.

Ok, when I type 'dsl xsetup' at the boot prompt (booting from USB thumb drive) I get a screen with "You passed an undefined mode number" and then a list of 6 modes in COLS and ROWS. I thought COLS and ROWS were for spreadsheets

Seriously, none of these choices which range from 80x25 to 80x60 work correctly nor give me anything but 8 colors.

I somehow have a hard drive boot of DSL working in full res (1280x1024x32) but cannot get that same thing to work from CD or USB boot drives. We're thinking of making DSL into a small, fast thin client type of application, but if it can't detect basic video settings other than prehistoric ones, it will shoot this project down

You probably have an non-standard monitor, or video.

Is that 'working' hard drive installation on the same machine that you are running the livecd/usb tests?

fb and vga= bootcodes might be of interest... but for better video you'll probably need specific drivers and the full xf86 server.

Prehistoric? The VESA standard is still here.

Quote (^thehatsrule^ @ Nov. 08 2006,09:36)

The monitor is a Dell 1280x1024 LCD and the computer is a Dell GX150 (hardly non-standard stuff)

The working HD installation is on the same computer but running through VMware Server so the driver would be different. However, the machine video is a pretty generic built in Intel card, so detection shouldn't be this difficult. It seems that DSL just can't detect it correctly.

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