Framebuffer is a low-level video thing that writes video bits to video ram and to the graphics chip. You may need to try some different video= lines. I don't know isolinux details so you'll have to dig on their site for specific settings. But I'll bet that something like video=vga may get you a working screen.<br>
<br>You will need the framebuffer stuff compiled into the kernel to use it.<br><br>AH! You need to spec framebuffer mode like 788, etc. Knoppix has good details on this.<br><br>Found this on <a href="http://www.linuxsir.org/bbs/archive/index.php/t-168922.html">http://www.linuxsir.org/bbs/archive/index.php/t-168922.html</a>:<br>
<br>My isolinux.cfg looks like this:<br>
<br>
timeout 30<br>
prompt 1<br>
display menu.txt<br>
default 1<br>
label 1<br>
kernel vmlinuz<br>
append initrd=initrd.gz<br>
<br>
label 2<br>
kernel vmlinuz<br>
append initrd=initrd.gz vga=788<br>
<br>
label 3<br>
kernel vmlinuz<br>
append initrd=initrd.gz vga=791<br>
<br>
menu.txt is a simple text file that looks like:<br>
<br>
1) Text Mode<br>
2) 800x600 x 16bit colour<br>
3) 1024x768 x 16bit colour<br>
<br>
The user just enters '1' if they want text mode, 2 for 800x600 and so on.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jan 1, 2009 at 5:52 PM, Courtney Thomas <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:courtneycthomas@bellsouth.net">courtneycthomas@bellsouth.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Attempting to bootup a live Isolinux iso on a Dell Latitude C810 portable,<br>
I'm getting a screen scrambled with almost impenetrable horizontal lines<br>
though I can see the blurred GUI 'behind'.<br>
<br>
I'd like to mount root on a USB jump drive.<br>
<br>
What would be a manually entered [at bootup] command that should<br>
get this thing going, please ?<br>
<br>
I've tried [a guess] of :<br>
<br>
/boot/linux append root=/dev/usb0 video=ask panic=10<br>
<br>
but get nothing but kernel panics.<br>
<br>
By the way, what's a framebuffer all about ?<br>
<br>
Happy New Year !<br>
<br>
Courtney<br>
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