From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KejuN-0006uA-3t for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 14 Sep 2008 05:12:27 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id CA83FE03D8; Sun, 14 Sep 2008 05:12:26 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 82394E03D8 for ; Sun, 14 Sep 2008 05:12:26 +0000 (UTC) Received: from stork.gentoo.org (stork.gentoo.org [64.127.104.133]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 32FC3B4FAB for ; Sun, 14 Sep 2008 05:12:25 +0000 (UTC) Received: from nightmorph by stork.gentoo.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1KejuK-0004Bk-2I for gentoo-doc-cvs@lists.gentoo.org; Sun, 14 Sep 2008 05:12:24 +0000 To: gentoo-doc-cvs@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-doc-cvs] cvs commit: nvidia-guide.xml Message-Id: From: Joshua Saddler Date: Sun, 14 Sep 2008 05:12:24 +0000 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-doc-cvs@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: docs-team@lists.gentoo.org X-Archives-Salt: b5825ceb-3023-4d85-a2e2-8bbf7073bc34 X-Archives-Hash: a19b8539b3c2807e12dd05128f8b94fd nightmorph 08/09/14 05:12:24 Modified: nvidia-guide.xml Log: updated kernel options, bug 237585 Revision Changes Path 1.46 xml/htdocs/doc/en/nvidia-guide.xml file : http://sources.gentoo.org/viewcvs.py/gentoo/xml/htdocs/doc/en/nvidia-guide.xml?rev=1.46&view=markup plain: http://sources.gentoo.org/viewcvs.py/gentoo/xml/htdocs/doc/en/nvidia-guide.xml?rev=1.46&content-type=text/plain diff : http://sources.gentoo.org/viewcvs.py/gentoo/xml/htdocs/doc/en/nvidia-guide.xml?r1=1.45&r2=1.46 Index: nvidia-guide.xml =================================================================== RCS file: /var/cvsroot/gentoo/xml/htdocs/doc/en/nvidia-guide.xml,v retrieving revision 1.45 retrieving revision 1.46 diff -u -r1.45 -r1.46 --- nvidia-guide.xml 6 Mar 2008 08:50:03 -0000 1.45 +++ nvidia-guide.xml 14 Sep 2008 05:12:23 -0000 1.46 @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ - + @@ -28,8 +28,8 @@ -1.36 -2008-03-06 +1.37 +2008-09-13 Introduction @@ -136,9 +136,9 @@ 

-Device Drivers --->
-Character devices --->
-<*> /dev/agpgart (AGP Support)
+Device Drivers --->
+Graphics Support --->
+-*- /dev/agpgart (AGP Support) --->
@@ -158,35 +158,40 @@ 
-Device Drivers --->
-Graphics Support --->
+Device Drivers --->
+Graphics Support --->
+<*> Support for frame buffer devices --->
 < >   nVidia Framebuffer Support
 < >   nVidia Riva support

-A framebuffer alternative is VESA: -

- -
-Device Drivers ---> 
-Graphics Support --->
-[*]   VESA VGA graphics support
-
- -

-Or, you may want to try uvesafb, an uvesafb, an advanced framebuffer. Note that you can choose to compile it into your kernel, or as a module. The following example compiles uvesafb into the kernel. 

-Device Drivers ---> 
-Graphics Support --->
+Device Drivers --->
+Graphics Support --->
+<*> Support for frame buffer devices --->
 <*>   Userspace VESA VGA graphics support
+ +

+Or you can try VESA: +

+ +
+Device Drivers --->
+Graphics Support --->
+<*> Support for frame buffer devices --->
+[*]   VESA VGA graphics support
+
+ +

For more information, you can look up the documentation for your chosen framebuffer in /usr/src/linux/Documentation/fb/.