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| From: | Neil Walker <neil@×××××××.nu> | ||
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| To: | gentoo-user@l.g.o | ||
| Subject: | Re: [gentoo-user] Why is VGA card blacklisted in xorg-drivers??? | ||
| Date: | Tue, 10 Nov 2009 05:19:09 | ||
| Message-Id: | 4AF8F6EF.1080006@ep.mine.nu | ||
| In Reply to: | [gentoo-user] Why is VGA card blacklisted in xorg-drivers??? by Walter Dnes |
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| 1 | Walter Dnes wrote: |
| 2 | > A bit of spelunking indicates that both available xorg-driver ebuilds |
| 3 | > explicitly blacklist VGA, |
| 4 | |
| 5 | Well, as VGA only officially supported up to 640x480, it's probably not very |
| 6 | useful for anything these days. |
| 7 | |
| 8 | > so I have nothing to fall back to. Thanks for |
| 9 | > nothing fellas. Meanwhile, the microKnoppix "live CD" (actually on a |
| 10 | > USB stick) has no problems running at 1024x768 |
| 11 | |
| 12 | Which is a VESA res. Tried that? x11-drivers/xf86-video-vesa is the usual |
| 13 | fallback. |
| 14 | |
| 15 | |
| 16 | Be lucky, |
| 17 | |
| 18 | Neil |
| 19 | http://www.neiljw.com |
| Subject | Author |
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| Re: [gentoo-user] Why is VGA card blacklisted in xorg-drivers??? | Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org> |
| Re: [gentoo-user] Why is VGA card blacklisted in xorg-drivers??? | Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org> |