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From: Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] uvesafb fails to work
Date: Wed, 02 Apr 2008 21:36:20
Message-Id: 200804022233.19011.michaelkintzios@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] uvesafb fails to work by Daniel Pielmeier
1 On Sunday 30 March 2008, Daniel Pielmeier wrote:
2
3 > So this depend on the Video Bios of your card and you maybe can't do
4 > anything about it!
5 >
6 > Although 1280x1024 should normally work and i guess you use this
7 > resolution for your Desktop. How do you generate your initrd? Which card
8 > do you have?
9 >
10 > "dmesg | grep uvesafb" and "fbset --info -v"?
11
12 # dmesg | grep uvesafb
13 Kernel command line: root=/dev/sda3 video=uvesafb:1024x768-32@64,ywrap,mtrr:4
14 splash=silent,fadein,theme:emergence quiet CONSOLE=/dev/tty1
15 uvesafb: ATI Technologies Inc., V380, 01.00, OEM: ATI RV380, VBE v2.0
16 uvesafb: protected mode interface info at c000:5884
17 uvesafb: pmi: set display start = c00c5918, set palette = c00c5964
18 uvesafb: pmi: ports = b010 b016 b054 b038 b03c b05c b000 b004 b0b0 b0b2 b0b4
19 uvesafb: no monitor limits have been set, default refresh rate will be used
20 uvesafb: VBE state buffer size cannot be determined (eax=0x0, err=0)
21 uvesafb: scrolling: ywrap using protected mode interface, yres_virtual=1536
22 uvesafb: framebuffer at 0xd0000000, mapped to 0xf8880000, using 6144k, total
23 16384k
24
25 fbset gives me bash: command not found. Should have I emerged something here?
26 Can't remember seeing this in the wiki article, as in it wasn't a must for fb
27 splash to work (I think).
28 --
29 Regards,
30 Mick

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