Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From:	meino.cramer@×××.de
To:	gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject:	Re: [gentoo-user] Re: SVGA mode & the console
Date:	Sun, 02 Jan 2011 15:41:05
Message-Id:	`20110102153926.GA5561@solfire`
In Reply to:	[gentoo-user] Re: SVGA mode & the console by Nikos Chantziaras

1	Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@×××××.de> [11-01-02 16:12]:
2	> On 01/02/2011 03:57 PM, meino.cramer@×××.de wrote:
3	> >unfortunately lrmi fails to compile.
4	>
5	> In addition to what I wrote in my other reply, make sure you use a
6	> 32bit Live CD. vbetest does not work with 64-bit kernels.
7	>
8	> Btw, if you're on a 32-bit Gentoo, you can compile lrmi on it. Steps:
9	>
10	> Download
11	> http://sourceforge.net/projects/lrmi/files/lrmi/0.10/lrmi-0.10.tar.gz/download
12	>
13	> Unpack it and apply the patch from Gentoo with:
14	>
15	> cd lrmi-0.10
16	> patch -p1 <
17	> /usr/portage/sys-libs/lrmi/files/lrmi-0.10-kernel-2.6.26.patch
18	>
19	> Simply run make. Now you can run it with: ./vbetest
20	>
21	> You don't need to install anything. When you're done, simply delete
22	> the lrmi-0.10 directory.
23	>
24	>
25
26	Hi Nikos,
27
28	unfortunately I am on a AMD64 Gentoo.
29
30	I will whether GRML has this tool...