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On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 14:20, Peter Humphrey <peter@××××××××××××××.org> wrote: |
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> On Tuesday 22 September 2009 12:33:59 Willie Wong wrote: |
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>> Is the framebuffer working? I mean, when you boot with the parameters |
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>> listed up there, are you stuck in 80x25 or are you in a framebuffer |
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>> mode that you don't like? |
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> No, the fram buffer is not active - I just get 80x25, or some others if I |
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> pass a vga= parameter to the kernel. |
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>> If you are stuck in 80x25 text-mode, the intelfb kernel documentation |
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>> suggests you try setting the vga mode, see the file vesafb.txt in your |
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>> kernel documentation directories for details. (The problem is that the |
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>> vesafb modes do not include one that is the native resolution for the |
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>> 16:9 aspect ratio displays; on LCDs this will make the text look |
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>> crappy). |
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> And I haven't been able to get the fesa fb to work either. |
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> Incidentally, if I have both intelfb and vesafb compiled in (*), vesafb |
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> takes over in spite of have intelfb specified via grub. Not what I |
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> expected. |
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>> If the framebuffer is working, maybe you just want to play with the |
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>> screen resolution? I think that 1024x600 is correct for the 1000 |
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>> series though. Do you just want a certain number of rows and columns |
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>> of text on your console? That I think is determined by the FONTS |
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>> symbol, the configuration should be somewhere around where you enabled |
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>> framebuffer support. Changing the font size should also change the |
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>> number of rows and columns. |
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> 1024x600 is correct, I'm sure of it. Fiddling with the fonts may help but |
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> I'd rather get the underlying screen resolution right first if I can. |
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>> On yres of 600, if you want something close to 60 lines, then you may |
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>> want to try using the 8x8 VGA font. The standard 8x16 fonts will |
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>> provide 30 someodd lines. |
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> Thanks for the ideas. |
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> * Thanks also to Daniel; I'd overlooked gentoo-wiki, where there seems to be |
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> lots of good advice. I'll have a go at that later. |
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As an owner (701 and 900), I researched a lot, and found this: |
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http://code.toofishes.net/cgit/dan/eee.git/tree/kernel-eee/kernelconfig |
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Its an Arch developer that makes a binary package (an eee specific |
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kernel), but he publishes all info using git (including the kernel |
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config file). You can use that to compile your own kernel and it will |
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give you a perfectly working framebuffer at native resolution (800x480 |
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in 701, and 1024x600 in 900). |
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Daniel da Veiga |
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