[gentoo-amd64] Re: Botting with vesafb under 2.6.22-gentoo-r2

[Yuval Hager]

On Saturday 18 August 2007, Yuval Hager wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've just upgraded to gentoo-sources-2.6.22-r2, and found that the vesafb I
> used to have with my 2.6.18 does not work anymore. The boot line I had
> before had '...vga=791 video=vesafb', but now it does'nt work at all (gives
> my a blank screen at boot).
>
> I googled it up a little but found no definitive answer. I've done all as
> written in the guides and wiki, but it still doesn't work. I must be
> missing something, since I guess it's quite basic...
>
> Thanks,
>
> --yuval

Replying to my own post..

I am using Nvidia card and VESA support has to NOT be compiled in the kernel 
according to all nvidia gentoo guides, if I want to use nvidia driver for 
X11. Using this settings, it is quite obvious why I could not get it to work. 
I am not sure why it worked for 2.6.18, but it is not for 2.6.22.

I finally solved this using the latest kernel 2.6.23-gentoo-r3, and uvesafb 
(http://dev.gentoo.org/~spock/projects/uvesafb/). I followed the installation 
instructions in the above link, and it worked without a flaw.

Thanks!

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