Re: [gentoo-user] uvesafb will not work on my dell d820 laptop?

[Ian Lee]

John covici wrote:
> Hi.  I have a Dell Latitude D820 laptop and for the life of me, I
> can't get uvesafb to work.  There are no messages, I just get the 25
> lines by 80 column screen.  I emerged clib, and v86d and made sure my
> .config had /usr/share/v86d/initramfs as the initramfs source, and I
> have uvesafb built in to the kernel.  My boot time command line
> arguments to lilo are:
> init=/linuxrc ramdisk=8192 real_root=/dev/sda5 udev
> video=uvesafb:1024x768 speakup.synth=spkout
> (all on one line in the original).
>
> Attached is my emerge --info and my kernel config -- assistance would
> be appreciated.
>
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According to you kernel config, uvesafb is not built in to the kernel, 
but as a module. Try building it in to the kernel and not as a module.


Ian