Description of problem: If the vga=0x317 kernel boot parameter is present, there is no text display. The screen stays blank, while the system starts up in the background. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): This is the sample section taken from my grub.conf that shows the vga=0x317 title Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client (2.6.18-1.2747.el5) root (hd0,1) kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.18-1.2747.el5 ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb quiet vga=0x317 initrd /initrd-2.6.18-1.2747.el5.img How reproducible: If the vga=0x317 boot parameter is present, no graphical display. If it's removed, the boot process is visible at normal text resolution. Steps to Reproduce: 1. add vga=03x17 to kernel parameters. 2. reboot 3. Connect to system with SSH and edit grub.conf to remove kernel parameter. Actual results: Blanks text display Expected results: The utilisation of the vga= goes on kernel line and controls the resolution and colour depth of framebuffer, which should load 128x48 (or 1024x768 pixel) resolution instead of the default 80x24. vesafb codes | 640x480 800x600 1024x768 1280x1024 ----+------------------------------------- 256 | 0x301 0x303 0x305 0x307 32k | 0x310 0x313 0x316 0x319 64k | 0x311 0x314 0x317 0x31A 16M | 0x312 0x315 0x318 0x31B Additional info: /usr/share/doc/kernel-doc-2.6.18/Documentation/fb/vesafb.txt
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*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 236195 ***