Plop boot manager booted from floppy: red lines on screen

[Icecube]

When I boot Plop boot manager from floppy, I see red lines on screen. Below those lines you can see the text a little bit (not very good).

I finally got it fixed by setting:

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Graphicmode T80x50
Wouldn't it be better to set this Graphical mode by default (or doesn't it always work on other PCs?).

Also the default font, is a bit difficult to read, because there is very little space between 2 lines. Can this distance easily be increased?

[Elmar]

hi,

When I boot Plop boot manager from floppy, I see red lines on screen. Below those lines you can see the text a little bit (not very good).

till now i got only 4 reports of a false graphic mode initialization over a few years. so i can assume that it works with 99% of graphic cards. you are in the unlucky situation that it does not work on your pc. can you give me some infos about manufacture and type of the graphic card?

I finally got it fixed by setting:

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Graphicmode T80x50

this was the correct way to fix it. the boot manager is running now in the text mode

Also the default font, is a bit difficult to read, because there is very little space between 2 lines. Can this distance easily be increased?

you can change the font to "bios font". this is the default ROM font of your bios.

best regards
elmar

[Icecube]

Some info from lshw:

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           *-display UNCLAIMED
                description: VGA compatible controller
                product: RS690 [Radeon X1200 Series]
                vendor: ATI Technologies Inc
                physical id: 5
                bus info: pci@0000:01:05.0
                version: 00
                width: 64 bits
                clock: 33MHz
                capabilities: pm msi vga_controller bus_master cap_list
                configuration: latency=64
                resources: memory:f0000000-f7ffffff(prefetchable) memory:fe9f0000-fe9fffff ioport:c000(size=256) memory:fe800000-fe8fffff
It uses 128 MB of shared RAM (has no own RAM).

you can change the font to "bios font". this is the default ROM font of your bios.

I know  . But I just wanted to let you know that I think that a little bit more space between the different lines, would make the default font a lot more readable.

[Elmar]

I know  . But I just wanted to let you know that I think that a little bit more space between the different lines, would make the default font a lot more readable.

you are right , it was not an answer to your question. i cannot increase the distance.

[fuwi]

Hi

Yesterday, i've testet PLoP 5.0.8 (CD-boot, graphic mode) on a Acer Aspire 5670
(ATI Radeon Mobility X1400 grapic adapter) and i get also this red lines, klick the link below:
http://www.fuwi.ethz.ch/images/PLoP_graphic-mode.jpg

fuwi