[BlueOnyx:08431] Re: 5107R VGA Monitor install

[Gerald Waugh]

Michael Stauber wrote:
> Hi Gerald,
> 
>> this past week, I visited 3 clients offices to upgrade from BlueQuartz
>> to BlueOnyx (5107R)
>>
>> None of their VGA monitors would work, saw the splash screen, the
>> options, but nothing after that. Now these clients have nothing but old
>> monitor type in their data-rooms/closets.
> 
> Actually I have an old Sony Trinitron 19" in my server room and could install 
> and boot into 5107R just fine with that.
>  
>> I looked through isolinux and kickstart but didn't see a monitor
>> resolution option.
> 
> When you boot off the ISO, you can append a "resolution=1024x768" to the boot 
> string instead of hitting return.
> 
> Type in the following as boot option and see if that helps:
> 
> linux ks=cdrom:/ks/kickstart.cfg initrd=initrd.img resolution=1024x768
> 

Will give that a try.
Not sure why those monitors would not work, but when I found one that
would work, resolution looked very high.

I used to use vga=791 in my grub.conf

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Gerald Waugh
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