Comment 158 for bug 129910
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| Sridhar Dhanapalan (sridhar) wrote Re: tty[1-6] are active but display nothing in Gutsy | #158 |
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Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote:
> The solution outlined in fanatic's last post has made my console visible.
> I didn't have to use any vga settings in grub.
> I should add that this has seemingly messed up my bootsplash. It is
> now of a lower resolution, and is offset to the right to the point where
> half of it is on the right edge of the screen and the rest is wrapped
> around onto the left. I've experimented with a few different resolutions
> in /etc/usplash.conf but there's been no change.
Correcting these comments, I _was_ using a vga= parameter in grub (I didn't notice it before), and the usplash problem was fixed by setting usplash.conf to 1024x768.
So the solution for me was to load the fbcon, vesafb and vga16fb modules into the initramfs and remove their blacklisting.