Geforce and penguin logo at startup

petu

Hey!

Is it possible to have penguin logo at startup with Nvidia geforce4? I mean that cool penguin you get with radeon when using framebuffer.

I know that there exists framebuffer for riva/geforce but I had no luck with them

metalhedd · Posted: Thu Oct 31, 2002 4:26 pm Post subject:

I think you have to use the vesafb, i'm using it here with a gf2mx, works fine.

petu · Posted: Fri Nov 01, 2002 7:51 pm Post subject: still not working

Thanks for your help but unfortunately I didn't get it working with vesafb. Should I add something to grub config?

pfeifer · Posted: Fri Nov 01, 2002 9:45 pm Post subject:

you need to append a vga=<value> to your kernel statment.

where <value> is the resolution/bit depth you want to run:

640x480/8 = 769
640x480/15 = 784
640x480/16 = 785
640x480/24 = 786
800x600/8 = 771
800x600/15 = 787
800x600/16 = 788
800x600/24 = 789
1024x768/8 = 773
1024x768/15 = 790
1024x768/16 = 791
1024x768/24 = 792

so, to do 1024x768 @ 16-bit color do this in menu.lst (grub.conf):

kernel /boot/bzImage root=/dev/<your root> vga=791

plus any other kernel option you may need to pass (ie. ide-scsi)

petu · Posted: Sat Nov 02, 2002 6:51 am Post subject: Now it's working

floam · Posted: Mon Nov 04, 2002 3:38 am Post subject:

any one got codes for over 1024? looks ugly on my 21"

pfeifer · Posted: Mon Nov 04, 2002 8:40 pm Post subject:

1280x1024/8=775
1280x1024/15=793
1280x1024/16=794
1280x1024/24=795
1600x1200/8=796
1600x1200/15=797
1600x1200/16=798
1600x1200/24=799

Hope this helps...

_j_