[Bug 562843] Re: [Lucid] [drm:rs400_gart_adjust_size] *ERROR* Forcing to 32M GART size (because of ASIC bug ?)

[Dixon Dick]

Tony Pursell,

That's weird.  Hmmm...  I would've thought "modset=0" would have
defaulted to 640x480, not 1024 ...

One more thing then.  When you start the system, make sure the
parameters are actually being taken by the kernel.  I suggest you do
this by hand with Grub.

To do this:

- as the system boots, hold down the SHIFT key
- the Grub menu comes up, cursor to the default (not recovery) kernel
- hit the "e" to edit this
- well, in any case you should see if the "radeon.modeset=0" thing is there
- type this in if not
- also add "splash" as another parameter so you can see a splash screen go by
- hit CTRL-X to boot from here ( and NO you can't save the changes at this time)
- you should go to a 640x480 SPLASH initially
- in my case, then you get a terminal prompt

Now, to be sure, I am running a server.  My machine does not try to
start X.  There may be some further problem.  What I'm suggesting here
is you determine whether it is a Grub problem, or an X problem further
on.

Cheers.

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[Lucid] [drm:rs400_gart_adjust_size] *ERROR* Forcing to 32M GART size (because of ASIC bug ?)
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