Originally Posted by
MAFoElffen
This should answer your last post, #774 also...
I want to avoid the changes in that old script if I can avoid them. All you had to say was "performance penalty" to put me off.
I found a way to set the graphics mode that doesn't give me that "deprecated" warning that using "vga=xxx," which worked otherwise, was giving me.
The solution was to use "GRUB_GFXPAYLOAD_LINUX=<resolution>" instead of "vga=xxx."
My /etc/default/grub now looks like this:
Code:
# If you change this file, run 'update-grub' afterwards to update
# /boot/grub/grub.cfg.
# For full documentation of the options in this file, see:
# info -f grub -n 'Simple configuration'
GRUB_DEFAULT=0
GRUB_HIDDEN_TIMEOUT=0
GRUB_HIDDEN_TIMEOUT_QUIET=true
GRUB_TIMEOUT=10
GRUB_DISTRIBUTOR=`lsb_release -i -s 2> /dev/null || echo Debian`
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash"
#GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX=" vga=0x031a"
# Uncomment to enable BadRAM filtering, modify to suit your needs
# This works with Linux (no patch required) and with any kernel that obtains
# the memory map information from GRUB (GNU Mach, kernel of FreeBSD ...)
#GRUB_BADRAM="0x01234567,0xfefefefe,0x89abcdef,0xefefefef"
# Uncomment to disable graphical terminal (grub-pc only)
#GRUB_TERMINAL=console
# The resolution used on graphical terminal
# note that you can use only modes which your graphic card supports via VBE
# you can see them in real GRUB with the command `vbeinfo'
#GRUB_GFXMODE=1024x768x32
#GRUB_GFXPAYLOAD_LINUX=1024x768x32
GRUB_GFXMODE=1280x1024x32
GRUB_GFXPAYLOAD_LINUX=1280x1024x32
# Uncomment if you don't want GRUB to pass "root=UUID=xxx" parameter to Linux
#GRUB_DISABLE_LINUX_UUID=true
# Uncomment to disable generation of recovery mode menu entries
#GRUB_DISABLE_RECOVERY="true"
# Uncomment to get a beep at grub start
#GRUB_INIT_TUNE="480 440 1"
I had to do a little experimenting, because 1280x1024x16 didn't work--it gave me the default 640x480--whereas 1280x1024x32 does work well except for being shifted to the left by about 12 pixels. (I wish I could find a fix for that!)
As you can see in the file above, I have commented out the other resolution that worked, 1024x768x32, which is centered and looks pretty good. I may use that so that the leftmost character in terminals isn't truncated if I can't figure out how to shift the display for the 1280x1024x32 that doesn't affect X, which is centered.
Thanks for all your help!
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