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From: Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@×××××.de>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: uvesafb - does it require use of initramfs/initrd?
Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2009 06:33:42
Message-Id: gkp9nd$5mg$1@ger.gmane.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] uvesafb - does it require use of initramfs/initrd? by Paul Hartman
1 Paul Hartman wrote:
2 > Hi,
3 >
4 > Does anyone here use uvesafb? I followed the instructions to install
5 > uvesafb from this page:
6 >
7 > http://dev.gentoo.org/~spock/projects/uvesafb/
8 >
9 > However, it does not work. Is it required to use initrd in order to
10 > use uvesafb? (because I don't use it...)
11 >
12 > the 80x25 looks absolutely horrible and I'd love to have something
13 > usable without needing to be in X. I have an nvidia geforce 9600GT
14 > card using the latest nvidia-drivers, and am on amd64 if it matters.
15
16 You can use vesafb instead of uvesafb.

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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: uvesafb - does it require use of initramfs/initrd? Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gentoo@×××××.com>