Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From:	Peter Humphrey <peter@××××××××××××.uk>
To:	gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject:	Re: [gentoo-user] Frame buffer setup - SOLVED
Date:	Tue, 15 Nov 2022 09:24:09
Message-Id:	`12122870.O9o76ZdvQC@wstn`
In Reply to:	[gentoo-user] Frame buffer setup by Peter Humphrey

1	On Wednesday, 2 November 2022 15:20:14 GMT Peter Humphrey wrote:
2	> Hello list,
3	>
4	> Would someone please remind me of what frame-buffer kernel settings I need
5	> for an i915 driver? I'm going round in circles, but whatever I try, this
6	> new laptop shows the initramfs-loaded message, then remains blank apart
7	> from that. I can see disk activity, and the machine responds to
8	> CTRL-ALT-DEL as expected; just no display.
9
10	After much going round in circles, I found that all I had to do was to emerge
11	x11-drivers/xf86-video-fbdev. Why, on that machine and not on others, I can't
12	imagine.
13
14	--
15	Regards,
16	Peter.