Dell 170Ls do not show a "thermometer bar" screen during start-up or shut-down procedure

It's likely that we are failing to set the vesa framebuffer mode---perhaps a buggy video BIOS or selecting a non-existent mode. Can you try booting with some alternative 'vga=' kernel parameters.

Alright, using this HOWTO <http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=258484> I figured out how to do what I THINK you're asking. Please correct me if I interpretted incorrectly.

I've tried vga=791 (1024x768x16, my normal resolution), vga=788 (800x600x16, a lower resolution), vga=770 (800x600x4, the lowest bit depth), and vga=768 (640x400x8, the lowest resolution) all to no avail.

I get this:

You passed an undefined mode number.
Press <RETURN> to see video modes available. <SPACE> to continue or wait 30 secs

Video adapter: VESA VGA
MODE: COLSxROW:
0 0F00 80x25
1 0F01 80x50
etc.

Enter mode number or 'scan':

Nothing seems to work.

Thanks for your bug report and for your contribution to ubuntu. It has been a while since the last comment in that bug report. Can you confirm if this bug is still reproducible with ubuntu Gutsy or Hardy release?

Saïvann,

I cannot confirm, but I'll copy a couple of people at the school I was
working at when I made this bug report to see if they can confirm:

Steve or Jeremy,

Are the Dell 170Ls still not showing the "thermometer bar" splash
screen if you boot to a Gutsy or Hardy beta live CD?

If I remember correctly, it worked fine on our first (Breezy, 5.10)
image, but did not work when we upgraded to Edgy (6.10).

The system booted up fine after the normal time so it wasn't too big
of a deal, just a cosmetic annoyance, but I went ahead and filed a bug
report.

Hope you're doing well!

Simón

On Sun, Mar 9, 2008 at 1:56 AM, Saïvann Carignan <email address hidden> wrote:
> Thanks for your bug report and for your contribution to ubuntu. It has
> been a while since the last comment in that bug report. Can you confirm
> if this bug is still reproducible with ubuntu Gutsy or Hardy release?
>
> ** Changed in: usplash (Ubuntu)
> Assignee: (unassigned) => Saïvann Carignan (saivann)
> Status: New => Incomplete
>
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> Dell 170Ls do not show a "thermometer bar" screen during start-up or shut-down procedure
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/99050
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