Comment 20 for bug 297245
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| Bryce Harrington (bryce) wrote Re: Dell Studio 15 Doesn't Boot, White Screen of Death | #20 |
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Hi stray,
There seem to be two separate issues you're running into - whitescreen with -intel, and limited resolutions with -vesa.
Taking the second issue first, -vesa is by design a limited graphics driver implementing the base set of standards all hardware vendors agree to adhere to, that guarantees only 640x480, and partly guarantees 800x600 and 1024x768. It *sometimes* permits other 4:3 aspect ratio resolutions supported by the monitor and graphics card, but in general I would not expect it to work with 1280x800 (16:10). Really, for such a resolution one would expect the normal driver (-intel) to work.
So for this bug report, let's focus only on the whitescreen problem in this bug report.
Mario, do you have access to this same hardware? Are you able to reproduce the problem?