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From: Richard Fish <bigfish@××××××××××.org>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Enabling frame buffering in kernel causes odd console display (wide screen lcd)
Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2005 05:39:11
Message-Id: 42DB3FCF.1050509@asmallpond.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Enabling frame buffering in kernel causes odd console display (wide screen lcd) by cafairle@engmail.uwaterloo.ca
1 cafairle@×××××××××××××××××.ca wrote:
2
3 >Enabling splash in the kernel causes text to start a 1/3 of the way over on the
4 >screen and wraps around (after decompressing kernel). Hardly legible and no
5 >splash image to be seen, nvidia module will not load (no screens found error)
6 >and editing files is difficult due to this shifted display effect. I'd really
7 >like to get it working at my native resolution of 1680x1050@60.
8 >
9 >
10 >added these lines to grub:
11 >"kernel /kernel-2.6.12-gentoo-r6-wfb quiet root=/dev/hda7
12 >video=vesafb:ywrap,mtrr,1280x1024-32@60 splash=verbose,theme:gentoo
13 >CONSOLE=/dev/tty1"
14 >
15 >
16
17 One of the advantages of fbsplash over bootsplash is that you can use it
18 with any framebuffer driver, not just vesafb (or vesafb-tng).
19
20 Maybe you can try using the nvidia driver with
21 video=nvidiafb:1280x1024-32@60 ? I can't remember if you need to
22 rebuild the kernel without vesafb-tng to get this to work or not...
23
24 -Richard
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