Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 105904
grub splashimage fails to load and text is garbled with nonstandard lcd (1440x900)
Last modified: 2007-04-18 12:57:58 EDT
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686) Gecko/20030807 Galeon/1.3.5 Description of problem: grub, with a fresh install on a Toshiba P25-S507 laptop is illegible. I know grub well enough to know that I can make it boot fine, the underlying functionality is fine, but the splashimage mode is trashed. The display is a 1440x900 resolution instead of the more standardized 640x480 aspect ratio. There seems to be no method of selecting a nonstandard aspect ratio. I turn off the splashimage in the grub.conf and the text is totally fine. The actual background splashimage looks fine when it is displayed, but the text becomes a mass of dots. no real closeness to any text at all. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): grub-0.93-4 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install RH 9 on this particular type of monitor/resolution 2. boot machine 3. grub works, but is illegible Actual Results: Grub is illegible Expected Results: The text should be readable Additional info:
grub is always 640x480, 16 color image. There is nothing that can be done if your video chipset doesn't properly support this mode other than disabling of the splashimage (which can't be done in an automated fashion as it's not really something that can be probed)