From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 Galeon/1.2.0 (X11; Linux i686; U;) Gecko/20020408 Description of problem: When using the 'linux rescue' option on a Valhalla CD to repair a system, the rescue process starts but when the blue background and text windows are meant to be coming up, our IBM 8513 plain-VGA monitor loses sync and one has to go find a multisync monitor. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Take an Intel box with a IBM 8513 or other VGA-only monitor 2. Boot off Valhalla disk 1, typing 'linux rescue' into the RHL cd prompt 3. Wait for the UI to start Actual Results: As the blue-background UI comes up, monitor shows mostly-blue flickerscape Expected Results: The monitor should have displayed a text-mode rescue disk screen with a blue background. Additional info: This monitor works fine in bios text mode, regular text mode inside Linux itself, and even the 320x200 Red Hat LILO boot graphic. This is the monitor we use for our KVM switch in our server room. I suspect a niftier text mode is being used without first probing for its acceptance. I worked around this bug by borrowing a multisync monitor. It lengthened the downtime of the server in question from about ten minutes to about forty-five minutes.
Should be ok with Red Hat Linux 8.0 since we dont use framebuffer.