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List: debian-user
Subject: Re: Ugly VGA fonts with console-setup (Squeeze)
From: Tom H <tomh0665 () gmail ! com>
Date: 2009-12-31 5:26:35
Message-ID: 6d4219cc0912302126q258737a7g8450a4648aeea9e6 () mail ! gmail ! com
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> In my (limited) reading of grub2 docs and a few tests, gfxmode changes
> the video mode only for grub[1], it does not replicate the behaviour of
> the "old" vga= variable.
> [1] this is also nice as it allows use of highres images for the grub
> background
OK. Thanks.
>> avoided it almost immediately is that it seemed to pop out of nowhere
>> in some fora but was not referenced in the grub.enbug.org, Ubuntu, or
>> ArchLinux documentation.
> IIRC it was mentioned by grub itself when I tried adding the vga=
> parameter to the kernel line, something like (from memory)
> "The vga= parameter is deprecated, set gfxpayload instead"
Thanks. I had never tried passing a "vga=" to the kernel in grub2. I
just tried and saw the gfxpayload message.
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