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On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 08:02, Peter Humphrey <peter@××××××××××××××.org> wrote: |
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> Hello list, |
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> My wife has a nice new Asus 1005AH and I'm installing Gentoo on it so that |
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> she won't have to struggle with the likes of Lookout Inarush. |
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> I've spent several days so far exploring blind alleys while getting the box |
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> to boot with a working Ethernet connection; eventually I discovered that I |
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> had to go to gentoo-sources-2.6.31, and I now have a running text-mode |
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> system. |
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> While messing about at the weekend I found a frame-buffer mode I liked, but |
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> now I can't reproduce it. The graphics chip is an Intel 945GME Express, I |
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> have intelfb and i2c-dev compiled into the 2.6.31 kernel, and this grub |
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> entry: |
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> root (hd0,4) |
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> kernel /kernel-2.6.31-gentoo root=/dev/sda6 video=intelfb:mode=1024x600 |
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> softlevel=no-x |
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> When I accidentally hit on the configuration I liked, the display started at |
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> the standard 80x25, then when it got to "Waiting for uevents to be |
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> processed" the screen blanked and then continued in something like 60 lines |
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> (I didn't actually count them); finally at udev-postmount the line length |
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> was changef from 80 to something like 120 (I didn't count that either). A |
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> very pretty display, clear as crystal. |
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> Can anybody point me to the config I need? I've tried google of course but |
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> no joy there. |
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Have you tried: |
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http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Intel_GMA |
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Specially the part that explains the new Kernel Modesetting? |
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The new GEM and some new features in newer kernels are pretty much all |
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I neeeded for my framebuffer. |
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Daniel da Veiga |
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