Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] new laptop - back screen
Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2011 15:04:02
Message-Id: 201108161602.55771.michaelkintzios@gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] new laptop - back screen by KH
1 On Tuesday 16 Aug 2011 14:00:39 KH wrote:
2 > Hi,
3 >
4 > I bought myself a lenovo Ideapad U160 which should be in specs like this
5 > on [1]. I want to have gentoo on it. The base system worked well, so I
6 > tried to see the penguins. I followed this guide [2] (uvesa). Now I see
7 > grub, then I see the penguins for a part of a second an then the screen
8 > is all black. The rest of the booting is fine. I can ssh in an reboot
9 > and everything. rc log shows no fault. I attach the config.
10 > Can anybody tell me what I did wrong? I would like to have both:
11 > penguins while booting an a screen I can work with.
12 >
13 > Thanks for your help
14 >
15 > kh
16 >
17 >
18 > [1]
19 > http://laptops-specs.blogspot.com/2010/06/lenovo-ideapad-u160-specification
20 > s.html [2] http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Framebuffer
21
22
23 Unless you have a very good reason to use uvesa I suggest you stick to KMS as
24 described here:
25
26 http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/xorg-config.xml
27
28 --
29 Regards,
30 Mick

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