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Installing from scratch and getting confused about where the kernel |
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framebuffer stuff is. |
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Quoting from the handbook here: |
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First of all you need to know what type of framebuffer device you're |
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using. If you use a Gentoo patched kernel tree (such as |
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gentoo-sources) you will have had the possibility of selecting |
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vesafb-tng as the VESA driver type (which is default for these kernel |
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sources). |
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If this is the case, you are using vesafb-tng and do not need to set a |
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vga statement. Otherwise you are using the vesafb driver and need to |
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set the vga statement. |
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I did use the gentoo-sources. I did not use genkernel. |
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I didn't see anything about vesafb-tng in the make menuconfig options |
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nor in the resulting .config. I'm assuming its under Graphic Drivers |
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section? |
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In older kernels I remember this being obvious but not in this one. |
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The install manual tells you that you have to know which type of |
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device but I wasn't able to tell where in the kernel config this is? |
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I've run gentoo for about a year or more and have never really got the |
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framebuffer stuff to work like I wanted, so have just ignored it all |
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that time. I'd now like to get it working finally. |
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Seemed the stumbling block has always been getting the large console |
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resolution 1280x1024. This is easily accomplished in lilo so I've |
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been running that way, but then ... no framebuffer. |
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Waaaa I want the gentoo trademark too..... |
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