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

[John covici]

on Saturday 06/20/2009 Ian Lee(ian@×××××××××××××××××××.uk) wrote
 > 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.
 > > 
 > > 
 > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------
 > > 
 > > 
 > > 
 > 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.
 > 
OK, thought it was built in, will try again -- thanks.

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