From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Ecam6-0001rb-27 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 17 Nov 2005 03:49:26 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id jAH3mR61002331; Thu, 17 Nov 2005 03:48:27 GMT Received: from mail.netspace.net.au (whirlwind.netspace.net.au [203.10.110.76]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id jAH3iWTB005702 for ; Thu, 17 Nov 2005 03:44:33 GMT Received: from orpheus (unknown [150.101.6.82]) by mail.netspace.net.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4D9CB12EAC3 for ; Thu, 17 Nov 2005 14:44:30 +1100 (EST) Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Kernel build no update grub From: Iain Buchanan To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <87sltwf1lp.fsf@newsguy.com> References: <8764qsgrh7.fsf@newsguy.com> <1132185718.12650.25.camel@orpheus> <87sltwf1lp.fsf@newsguy.com> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2005 13:06:15 +0930 Message-Id: <1132198575.4547.5.camel@orpheus> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.4.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: b0b30f47-5a69-4b3d-a5d3-42077ea3345b X-Archives-Hash: d43e276a6a7e956ff6c996e4aa292201 On Wed, 2005-11-16 at 20:29 -0600, Harry Putnam wrote: > Iain Buchanan writes: > > From what you've posted, I think your grub.conf should look something > > like this > I'm trying it that way now. I've set a few other resolutions in there > to test but the one I posted has been working ok (1152x864-24@70). > > How can I tell which ones will work in advance? Read up on the specs for your monitor? If its not in the monitor's manual, Google has worked well for me in the past - I search for something like "X11 frequency ". The reason I add X11 is because there are a few X sites that have models and capable frequencies to help you set up X, but the same numbers should work for fb. > Someone posted a > command to display some setting from /proc: > > cat /proc/fb0/modes first I've heard of it, I'll have to remember that :) I'm using vanilla sources atm, so I don't have it just now :( > That doesn't show the one I've been using and I know it works so that > bunch must not be very complete. Maybe because the one you're using now is not "natively" supported by your monitor, but it can still handle it. > But first lets see if the basic stuff works... ok -- Iain Buchanan -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list