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Hi, Nick. |
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On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 05:00:49PM +0100, Mick wrote: |
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> On Monday 25 April 2011 16:03:21 Alan Mackenzie wrote: |
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> > As a matter of interest, do you know how to configure a framebuffer |
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> > console to fill up a wide screen (say, to a width of 170 characters) |
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> > as contrasted with the 128 characters which were optimum on an old |
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> > fashioned CRT? |
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> I think that things have moved on since the first time you installed |
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> Gentoo. Latest kernels have the ability to load firmware for your |
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> video card that takes account of the native resolution of the monitor - |
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> without any additional framebuffer drivers (like vesa, uvesa, radeonfb, |
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> etc.) As a matter of fact you'll get a blank screen if you try to boot |
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> the latest kernels with KMS configured using any additional framebuffer |
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> driver. |
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Indeed. :-( |
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> To save me describing each step, you would do better reading through |
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> this page which details everything you need to do: |
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> http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/xorg-config.xml |
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A fascinating document. Thanks! |
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> Regards, |
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> Mick |
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Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany). |
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