[gentoo-laptop] Resolution for LCD screens

[gentoo-laptop] Resolution for LCD screens

[Ben Blount]

Hello all, I'm trying to get my Dell Latitude CPi to set the console
resolution high enough to occupy my entire screen. I used the frame
buffer setting in the grub.conf like the handbook says, but no matter
what I set it on, it appears to have no effect.

Here is my kernel line from grub.conf:

kernel /kernel-2.6.12-gentoo-r9 root=/dev/hda4 video=vesafb-tng:1024x768-16@60

That seems to be correct in syntax but I'm not sure.. the handbook was
rather vague at this part.

Thanks for the help!

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Re: [gentoo-laptop] Resolution for LCD screens

[Darren Dale]

On Monday 05 September 2005 12:51 pm, Ben Blount wrote:
> Hello all, I'm trying to get my Dell Latitude CPi to set the console
> resolution high enough to occupy my entire screen. I used the frame
> buffer setting in the grub.conf like the handbook says, but no matter
> what I set it on, it appears to have no effect.
>
> Here is my kernel line from grub.conf:
>
> kernel /kernel-2.6.12-gentoo-r9 root=/dev/hda4
> video=vesafb-tng:1024x768-16@60

try:

kernel /kernel-2.6.12-gentoo-r9 root=/dev/hda4 video=vesafb:1024x768-16@60

Darren
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RE: [gentoo-laptop] Resolution for LCD screens

[Brian Masur]

You might want to check to make sure you have framebuffer support for your 
video card compiled in your kernel.  For my laptop, I have radeon 
framebuffer support in the kernel.  I do not have to specify a resolution on 
the kernel line in grub.conf and it automatically goes to 1280x800.

Let us know if any of that helps, and good luck!


>From: Ben Blount <kryptic0329@gmail.com>
>Reply-To: gentoo-laptop@lists.gentoo.org
>To: gentoo-laptop@lists.gentoo.org
>Subject: [gentoo-laptop] Resolution for LCD screens
>Date: Mon, 5 Sep 2005 12:51:02 -0400
>
>Hello all, I'm trying to get my Dell Latitude CPi to set the console
>resolution high enough to occupy my entire screen. I used the frame
>buffer setting in the grub.conf like the handbook says, but no matter
>what I set it on, it appears to have no effect.
>
>Here is my kernel line from grub.conf:
>
>kernel /kernel-2.6.12-gentoo-r9 root=/dev/hda4 
>video=vesafb-tng:1024x768-16@60
>
>That seems to be correct in syntax but I'm not sure.. the handbook was
>rather vague at this part.
>
>Thanks for the help!
>
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>


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Re: [gentoo-laptop] Resolution for LCD screens

[YoYo Siska]

Ben Blount wrote:
> Hello all, I'm trying to get my Dell Latitude CPi to set the console
> resolution high enough to occupy my entire screen. I used the frame
> buffer setting in the grub.conf like the handbook says, but no matter
> what I set it on, it appears to have no effect.
> 
> Here is my kernel line from grub.conf:
> 
> kernel /kernel-2.6.12-gentoo-r9 root=/dev/hda4 video=vesafb-tng:1024x768-16@60
> 
> That seems to be correct in syntax but I'm not sure.. the handbook was
> rather vague at this part.
> 
> Thanks for the help!
> 

it should be just video=vesafb:... (without the "-tng" part), even if 
you use vesafg-tng

yoyo
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