Boot splash resolution - any tricks?

Hi -

My laptop has a 1280x800 screen, nvidia graphics, which all work great once things are booted.

The issue is that the SuSE splash screen comes up in 1024x768, which is a bit annoying. I’ve been scouting around looking for a way to push the resolution up to 1280, but I’m getting a bit depressed about what I’m finding. In particular, it looks like my bios just doesn’t support that:

hwinfo --framebuffer
02: None 00.0: 11001 VESA Framebuffer                           
  [Created at bios.450]
  Unique ID: rdCR.9nfmdbMazw7
  Hardware Class: framebuffer
  Model: "NVIDIA G72 Board - brewst0 "
  Vendor: "NVIDIA Corporation"
  Device: "G72 Board - brewst0 "
  SubVendor: "NVIDIA"
  SubDevice: 
  Revision: "Chip Rev"
  Memory Size: 256 MB
  Memory Range: 0xd0000000-0xdfffffff (rw)
  Mode 0x0300: 640x400 (+640), 8 bits
  Mode 0x0301: 640x480 (+640), 8 bits
  Mode 0x0303: 800x600 (+800), 8 bits
  Mode 0x0305: 1024x768 (+1024), 8 bits
  Mode 0x030e: 320x200 (+640), 16 bits
  Mode 0x030f: 320x200 (+1280), 24 bits
  Mode 0x0311: 640x480 (+1280), 16 bits
  Mode 0x0312: 640x480 (+2560), 24 bits
  Mode 0x0314: 800x600 (+1600), 16 bits
  Mode 0x0315: 800x600 (+3200), 24 bits
  Mode 0x0317: 1024x768 (+2048), 16 bits
  Mode 0x0318: 1024x768 (+4096), 24 bits
  Mode 0x0330: 320x200 (+320), 8 bits
  Mode 0x0331: 320x400 (+320), 8 bits
  Mode 0x0332: 320x400 (+640), 16 bits
  Mode 0x0333: 320x400 (+1280), 24 bits
  Mode 0x0334: 320x240 (+320), 8 bits
  Mode 0x0335: 320x240 (+640), 16 bits
  Mode 0x0336: 320x240 (+1280), 24 bits
  Mode 0x033d: 640x400 (+1280), 16 bits
  Mode 0x033e: 640x400 (+2560), 24 bits
  Config Status: cfg=new, avail=yes, need=no, active=unknown 

So, the question is: is there anything that I can do to tease 1280x800 out of this computer at boot? Thanks!

  • John