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> From: Holly Bostick [mailto:motub@...]
> Sent: Tue 8/23/2005 5:18 PM
> To: gentoo-user@g.o <mailto:gentoo-user@g.o> 
> Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Boot stalls after install of 2005.1
> 
> Marcel Romijn schreef:
> > 
> >
> > I assumed that even though the kernel has framebuffer support built in,
> > it won't use it if it is not configured as kernel parameter in
> > grub.conf.
> > Maybe that was a wrong assumption?
>
> Yes, it was. The settings in grub.conf are supposed to override the
> kernel settings. But if the framebuffer is set in the kernel, naturally
> the kernel is going to start the framebuffer. It is, after all, the
> kernel, and the kernel is king of the hill.
> 
> If you don't want a framebuffer, remove framebuffer support from your
> kernel config.

Hmmm..., I just followed the installation handbook. Plain, unmodified kernel configuration, which has framebuffer support enabled.
At the chapter of configuring grub, it mentiones that using the framebuffer was optional.
<quote>
If you have configured your kernel with framebuffer support (or you used genkernel's default kernel configuration), you can activate it by adding a vga and/or a video statement to your bootloader configuration file.
</quote>

I tried some kernel parameters in grub.conf:

video=vesafb-tng:mtrr,ywrap,1024x768-32@85
Still stalls.

video=vesafb-tng:mtrr,ywrap,1024x768-32@60
Because I read in a mailing list about vesafb not being able to switch refresh rates (might have been an old mailing list)
Still stalls.

video=vesafb-tng:1024x768-32@60
Removed the mtrr and ywarp in case they were not supported.
Still stalls.

video=vesafb:1024x768-32@60
In case 'vesafb-tng' is not supported but 'vesafb' is.
Still stalls, but messes up the remaining text on the screen.

In the mean time, I have done the same install in VMware.
That install boots (succesfully!) with the "video=vesafb-tng:mtrr,ywrap,1024x768-32@85" setting!! (Although in 640x480, but that's caused by VMware).

So my conclusion is that there is something with my hardware configuration.
I'm using a VIA Epia ME6000 Mini ITX board.

I had Gentoo 2005.0 running on this board, so maybe something changed in this area between 2005.0 and 2005.1?

When I boot this board with the Gentoo 2005.1 LiveCD, it seems to use the framebuffer.
The isolinux.cfg mentions "vga=791", but that doesn't seem to solve my problem as well.

> 
> Unless there's a setting in grub.conf to disable the
> previously-initialized framebuffer. If there was, you could use that,
> but I don't even know if such a setting exists, and seems like extra
> work in any case (enabling the framebuffer just to disable it with an
> override that may or may not work).

-nofb , as suggested by Michael Kintzios, did not help.

> 
> Hope this helps,
> Holly
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Thanks for the help so far...

Marcel Romijn