Re: [gentoo-user] vesa-tng not working with kernel 2.6.24

[John covici]

on Tuesday 02/19/2008 justin@×××××××××.net(justin@×××××××××.net) wrote
 > 
 > On Tue, 19 Feb 2008 06:24:52 -0500, John covici <covici@××××××××××.com>
 > wrote:
 > > Hi.  I compiled gentoo-sources 2.6.24-r2 -- however the vesa-tng
 > > seemed to disappear -- its in the .config, but for some reason I am
 > > getting a console of 25x80.  Now I have the default mode set to
 > > 1280x1024@60 which works fine with the 2.6.21 kernel, but not the
 > > 2.6.24 one.  What is strange is that I can't find the vesatng in the
 > > .config, but if I go into make menuconfig its there, so can someone
 > > explain why things are not working properly for 2.6.24?
 > > 
 > > Thanks.
 > > --
 > 
 > since the 23 version vesatng is removed. You can used the next generation
 > of spocks fb support named uvesfb. Follow the this page
 > 
 > http://dev.gentoo.org/~spock/projects/uvesafb/
 > 
 > .
Do I still need to do what I have been doing -- using genkernel to
generate the initial ram disk or should I skip this step?

Thanks.


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