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From: "Sergey A. Kobzar" <sergey.kobzar@××××.ru>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re[5]: [gentoo-user] frambuffer Dell Vostro 1400
Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2009 08:33:24
Message-Id: 299419438.20090331113334@mail.ru
In Reply to: Re[4]: [gentoo-user] frambuffer Dell Vostro 1400 by "Sergey A. Kobzar"
1 Tuesday, March 31, 2009, 11:07:55 AM, Sergey wrote:
2
3 > Monday, March 30, 2009, 8:59:58 PM, Alejandro wrote:
4
5
6 >>> I have a similar laptop, with the same intel chip and intelfb also
7 >>> didn't work. while vesafb works good.
8
9 >>> Cheers!
10
11
12 >>> Vesafb works fine for me too.
13
14
15 >>> In native 1280x800 resolution?
16
17
18 >> I can't remeber but maybe is 1024x768
19
20 > I've enabled vesafb and set same settings as Gentoo LiveCD:
21
22 > # cat /boot/grub/grub.conf
23 > default 0
24 > timeout 5
25
26 > title Gentoo Linux 2.6.27-r8-b0
27 > root (hd0,0)
28 > kernel /boot/kernel-2.6.27-gentoo-r8-b0 root=/dev/sda3 vga=791
29
30
31 > # cat /usr/src/linux/.config | grep FB | grep -v '^#'
32 > CONFIG_FB=y
33 > CONFIG_FB_CFB_FILLRECT=y
34 > CONFIG_FB_CFB_COPYAREA=y
35 > CONFIG_FB_CFB_IMAGEBLIT=y
36 > CONFIG_FB_MODE_HELPERS=y
37 > CONFIG_FB_VESA=y
38
39
40 > # dmesg | grep vesafb
41 > vesafb: framebuffer at 0xe0000000, mapped to 0xf8a80000, using 3072k, total 7616k
42 > vesafb: mode is 1024x768x16, linelength=2048, pages=3
43 > vesafb: scrolling: redraw
44 > vesafb: Truecolor: size=0:5:6:5, shift=0:11:5:0
45
46
47 > But when system boots I see blank screen.
48
49 > Any ideas?
50
51 > # uname -rsm
52 > Linux 2.6.27-gentoo-r8 i686
53
54
55 Fixed.
56
57 I forgot to add CONFIG_FRAMEBUFFER_CONSOLE. After enabling it
58 everything works fine. Thanks for the help!
59
60 --
61 Sergey