f17 and ATI RAGE128

[Peter Jones]

On 05/26/2012 10:51 PM, Adam Williamson wrote:
> On Sat, 2012-05-26 at 19:00 +0000, Andre Robatino wrote:
>> G.Wolfe Woodbury <redwolfe <at> gmail.com> writes:
>>
>>> The problem is that grub2 selects inappropriate video modes for ATI cards
>>> The GFXMODE variable preselects a mode for grub2.
>>> I've had to do this for a Radeon card.
>>
>> I see this with a GeForce 6150SE nForce 430. Following your instructions allows
>> me to see the grub menu.
>>
>> Smolt: http://www.smolts.org/client/show/pub_ca1da1bd-b1f2-4993-b39c-63a5394c5ca1
> 
> Peter, how in general do you want to proceed where we have documented
> cases of graphics mode setting failure in grub2? Do you want individual
> bug reports for each affected bit of hardware? Downstream, upstream?
> What kind of info should be included? Thanks!

One for each card is probably fine, though there's some chance these will
occasionally be due to the system bios and not the vidoe bios on the card.
But whatever; we can coalesce those if needs be.

-- 
        Peter

Space, is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly hugely
mindbogglingly big it is. I mean you may think it's a long way down the
road to the chemist, but that's just peanuts to space.
		-- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy