Re: [gentoo-user] Framebuffer and kenerl options

[Brett I. Holcomb]

It's under device drivers->graphic support.  You select Support for 
framebuffer.  Select it and you get a VESA VGA graphics support option in the 
list which has a sub item with VESA driver type ....  Hit enter there and you 
can select vesa or vesafb-tng.


On Thursday 08 December 2005 21:45, Harry Putnam wrote:
> Installing from scratch and getting confused about where the kernel
> framebuffer stuff is.

> Quoting from the handbook here:
>
> ---
> First of all you need to know what type of framebuffer device you're
> using. If you use a Gentoo patched kernel tree (such as
> gentoo-sources) you will have had the possibility of selecting
> vesafb-tng as the VESA driver type (which is default for these kernel
> sources).
>
> If this is the case, you are using vesafb-tng and do not need to set a
> vga statement. Otherwise you are using the vesafb driver and need to
> set the vga statement.
> ---
>
> I did use the gentoo-sources.  I did not use genkernel.
>
> I didn't see anything about vesafb-tng in the make menuconfig options
> nor in the resulting .config.  I'm assuming its under Graphic Drivers
> section?
>
> In older kernels I remember this being obvious but not in this one.
>
> The install manual tells you that you have to know which type of
> device but I wasn't able to tell where in the kernel config this is?
>
> I've run gentoo for about a year or more and have never really got the
> framebuffer stuff to work like I wanted, so have just ignored it all
> that time.  I'd now like to get it working finally.
>
> Seemed the stumbling block has always been getting the large console
> resolution 1280x1024.  This is easily accomplished in lilo so I've
> been running that way, but then ... no framebuffer.
>
> Waaaa I want the gentoo trademark too.....
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