Graphic boot

Darryl L. Pierce dpierce at redhat.com
Fri Feb 24 21:14:57 UTC 2012


On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 03:04:18PM -0600, Kevin Martin wrote:
> Just out of curiosity, what *are* the video drivers in the initrd image file?  They *always* seem to work and they seem to display
> correctly.  Is there any reason *not* to use those same drivers as your X video drivers?

The problem for the OP is that he's using a driver that's not compiled
with the kernel but is instead from a separate source. The ones used
during startup are those that are built along with the kernel.

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