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On 07/05/2011 03:48 AM, Harry Putnam wrote: |
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> Nikos Chantziaras<realnc@×××××.de> writes: |
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> [...] |
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> Harry wrote: |
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>>> So I'm a little confused. |
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> Nikos replied: |
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>> The guide deals with how to make X.Org use KMS. That does not mean |
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>> that KMS requires X. For your X-less machine, all you need to do is |
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>> enable the driver for your card in the kernel config, and make sure to |
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>> also enable KMS. You need to disable the VESA/uvesafb drivers to |
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>> avoid conflicts. |
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>> What graphics card do you have, btw? |
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> The gentoo install is a guest (Virtual Box) vm hosted on win 7. |
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I don't think there's a KMS driver for VirtualBox (AFAIK, the kernel has |
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one only for VMWare.) So no need to investigate this further. |
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