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This One Time, at Band Camp, John covici <covici@××××××××××.com> said, On Tue, Feb 19, 2008 at 07:23:04AM -0500: |
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> on Tuesday 02/19/2008 justin@×××××××××.net(justin@×××××××××.net) wrote |
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> > On Tue, 19 Feb 2008 06:24:52 -0500, John covici <covici@××××××××××.com> |
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> > wrote: |
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> > > Hi. I compiled gentoo-sources 2.6.24-r2 -- however the vesa-tng |
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> > > seemed to disappear -- its in the .config, but for some reason I am |
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> > > getting a console of 25x80. Now I have the default mode set to |
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> > > 1280x1024@60 which works fine with the 2.6.21 kernel, but not the |
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> > > 2.6.24 one. What is strange is that I can't find the vesatng in the |
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> > > .config, but if I go into make menuconfig its there, so can someone |
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> > > explain why things are not working properly for 2.6.24? |
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> > > Thanks. |
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> > > -- |
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> > since the 23 version vesatng is removed. You can used the next generation |
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> > of spocks fb support named uvesfb. Follow the this page |
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> > http://dev.gentoo.org/~spock/projects/uvesafb/ |
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> > . |
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> Do I still need to do what I have been doing -- using genkernel to |
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> generate the initial ram disk or should I skip this step? |
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> Thanks. |
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Yes it is the same as vesafb, though you should install |
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sys-apps/v86d and make sure you have |
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CONFIG_INITRAMFS_SOURCE="/usr/share/v86d/initramfs" in your kernel |
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config... |
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Wael Nasreddine |
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http://wael.nasreddine.com |
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.: An infinite number of monkeys typing into GNU emacs, |
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would never make a good program. (L. Torvalds 1995) :. |
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