Screen resoultion in virtual terminal.

[Mooseguy]

I have recently re-installed openSUSE 10.2 due to some obscure error that I couldn't fix. Everything works fine, apart from two things. The first isn't very important, but on boot the blue spashscreen isn't there. I always push Esc to get rid of it anyway, but I'm still wondering why that happened. Also, when I use a virtual terminal (By pressing Ctrl-Alt-F1) The text is large. It's like the resolution has been changed from 1280 x 1024 to 640 x 480.

[devils casper]

post the contents of /boot/grub/menu.lst file.

[Mooseguy]

# Modified by YaST2. Last modification on Tue Apr 10 16:07:32 BST 2007
default 0
timeout 8
gfxmenu (hd0,5)/boot/message

title openSUSE 10.2
root (hd0,5)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.18.8-0.1-default root=/dev/sda6 resume=/dev/sda7 splash=silent showopts
initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.18.8-0.1-default

title Windows
rootnoverify (hd0,0)
chainloader (hd0,0)+1

###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: failsafe###
title Failsafe -- openSUSE 10.2
root (hd0,5)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/sda6 vga=normal showopts ide=nodma apm=off acpi=off noresume nosmp noapic maxcpus=0 edd=off 3
initrd /boot/initrd

###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: linux###
title openSUSE 10.2 - Old Kernel
root (hd0,5)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/sda6 resume=/dev/sda7 splash=silent showopts
initrd /boot/initrd

[valemon]

You have to add a boot parameter in grub. Open YaST->System->Configuration of the bootloader. Select the default suse line, press 'modify'(?), in the line 'VGA mode' you enter 0x31a (that is 1280x1024, 16 bit color). Then save and reboot.

[devils casper]

OR log in as root, open menu.lst file and add vga=0x31a at the end of kernel line.

[Mooseguy]

Thanks guys, that fixed the resolution problem. How about the splash screen? I've had a poke around and it seems that the splash="silent" line in menu.lst has something to do with it.

[the bassinvader]

The splash screen setting should be before any of the settings for OSs and look like this;

splashimage=(hd0,3)/grub/splash.xpm.gz

You can use any image as long as its of th type .xpm.gz


splash="silent" is the image you see after choosing openSuSE 10.2.

errr... hope thats not explaining the obvious

later

[Mooseguy]

I had a look in the /boot/grub folder but there's no .xpm.gz file there.

[the bassinvader]

Thats ok. I was talking out of arse anyway, in SuSE grub uses gfxmenu instead which i see you already have listed. The only other thing i can think of is whether grub is looking in the right partition;

 gfxmenu (hd0,5)/boot/message

but this is a last ditch suggestion on my part.

i'm out