Issue with >2.6.32 kernels, plymouth always display at 1024x768

[Natale Vinto]

You mean using quiet? I use splash quiet in the kernel command line in grub

2011/6/1 Ray Strode <halfline at gmail.com>:
> Hi,
>
> On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 6:19 AM, Natale Vinto <ebballon at gmail.com> wrote:u
>> I'm using plymouth 0.8.3 on Debian testing/sid linux distribution with
>> kernel 2.6.38.3 . I have an intel integrated graphics controller
>> managed by the i915 module and I followed Debian wiki in order to
>> setup and run plymouth http://wiki.debian.org/plymouth
>> It was all working but then, because I would modify default theme, i
>> followed this great tutorial
>> http://brej.org/blog/?p=158
>> so I have my custome theme "mytheme" installed and running (i've just
>> changed the image and put that code to auto-adapt to the screen size)
>> but the problem is that the plymouth screen size is always 1024x768
>> even if the screen it's greater. I have this issue on VGA but not for
>> example on DVI computer with the same system.
> So plymouth under most situations won't resize the display.  It just
> uses what the kernel dishes out.
> It sounds like you may be having some sort of driver issue.
>
> Do make sure you don't have vga=0x318 or some such on the kernel
> command line forcing a vesa mode.
>
>> I've seen that in debian default kernel 2.6.32 the auto-resize code
>> works so i wonder why in greater kernels (even if default one from
>> debian repo) i have plymouth and mytheme always at 1024x768.
>> I had this 1024x768 >2.6.32 kernel issue also with Xorg and I had to
>> ignore LVDS1, but what I have to do for plymouth?
> Ah, I see, so definitely a kms issue.  Maybe you can workaround it by
> disabling the output on the kernel command line?
>
> --Ray
>



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