Re: [gentoo-user] intelfb usage in grub

[Valmor de Almeida]

Mike Edenfield wrote:

>
> these log messages.  I assume this is a laptop (or else your intelfb is
> very confused).  For some reason that I don't fully understand, but

It is a laptop indeed.

> assume is a good one, the intel fb device cannot change the video mode
> on a laptop display.  The vga parameter actually gets the kernel to
> change the video mode much earlier, so the intelfb driver can keep using
> the same one.

I am just using

kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/sda3 vga=0x318 video=intelfb

since the mode option under intelfb is useless. I could also drop the 
video parameter altogether since I only have the intelfb driver compiled 
into the kernel.

Thanks,

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