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From: Harry Putnam <reader@×××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: about boot with framebuffer
Date: Tue, 05 Jul 2011 00:50:33
Message-Id: 87d3hp1riy.fsf@newsguy.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Re: about boot with framebuffer by Nikos Chantziaras
1 Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@×××××.de> writes:
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6 Harry wrote:
7 >> So I'm a little confused.
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9 Nikos replied:
10 > The guide deals with how to make X.Org use KMS. That does not mean
11 > that KMS requires X. For your X-less machine, all you need to do is
12 > enable the driver for your card in the kernel config, and make sure to
13 > also enable KMS. You need to disable the VESA/uvesafb drivers to
14 > avoid conflicts.
15 >
16 > What graphics card do you have, btw?
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18 The gentoo install is a guest (Virtual Box) vm hosted on win 7.
19 Video information:
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21 From lspci:
22 VGA compatible controller: InnoTek Systemberatung GmbH VirtualBox
23 Graphics Adapter
24
25 More from lshw:
26 description: VGA compatible controller
27 product: VirtualBox Graphics Adapter
28 vendor: InnoTek Systemberatung GmbH
29 physical id: 2
30 bus info: pci@0000:00:02.0
31 version: 00
32 width: 32 bits
33 clock: 33MHz
34 capabilities: vga_controller bus_master
35 configuration: latency=0
36 resources: memory:e0000000-e0ffffff

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[gentoo-user] Re: about boot with framebuffer Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@×××××.de>