corrupt display while booting

[golfdiesel]

While booting I get a corrupted display.
It is not a big problem, but I can't see what it is doing during boot. It seems like it is setting my Radeon 9700 to a display mode it or my TFT can't handle.
My TFT claims it to be 720x400@70Hz which is a mode it normally handles.

[morgoth]

Re: corrupt display while booting

I also get corrupted display, but only in grub (can't see anything only lots of colours) and the 3 first line at boot before slash kicks in. Also if I try to enter console I only get a black screen.

Running a laptop with nvidia go 6600. breezy and hoary worked just fine.

[morgoth]

Re: corrupt display while booting

I took some pictures of my boot:
First picture is of grup preload, which is normal (crapy picture)
http://fribyte.uib.no/~svein/kubuntu...u_dapper01.jpg

Second picture i of the grub meny, note the pretty colours
http://fribyte.uib.no/~svein/kubuntu...u_dapper02.jpg

Third and fourth is of the first lines of the kernel, again nice fonts
http://fribyte.uib.no/~svein/kubuntu...u_dapper03.jpg
http://fribyte.uib.no/~svein/kubuntu...u_dapper04.jpg

Fifth and sixth is of the splashscreen. they are normal again
http://fribyte.uib.no/~svein/kubuntu...u_dapper05.jpg
http://fribyte.uib.no/~svein/kubuntu...u_dapper06.jpg

The last picture is of the console after X has loaded, note the pure black (not a picture, just black)
http://fribyte.uib.no/~svein/kubuntu...u_dapper07.jpg

When I tried the ubuntu flight 5 live, none of these problems happend, exept the grub issue since the live doesn't have one

[morgoth]

Re: corrupt display while booting

I found a workaround for the grub problem:
#splashimage=(hd0,1)/boot/grub/ from menu.lst
So now its black and white. And dull

But my bigest problem, the console bug is still not fixed.

[morgoth]

Re: corrupt display while booting

seems the grub problemwent away after an apt-get upgrade.

but the cosole black screen remains. If X fails to start then I have console but it seems thatI can't have both

[golfdiesel]

Re: corrupt display while booting

I added vga=0x318 to kernel options in GRUB. This fixed the corrupt bootscreen and console bug.