From: Albert Hopkins <marduk@letterboxes.org>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] about boot with framebuffer
Date: Sun, 03 Jul 2011 18:07:36 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1309730856.64890.2.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87wrfzm4bv.fsf@newsguy.com>
On Sunday, July 3 at 16:39 (-0500), Harry Putnam said:
> I've been booting with a framebuffer for some time. So long that I
> fear my kernel line may be out of date.
>
A lot of people nowadays are using KMS. It's the one true way™ for
doing console/X mode settings. But if you have a procraprietary driver
it may not work.
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/xorg-config.xml#doc_chap2
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-07-03 22:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-07-03 21:39 [gentoo-user] about boot with framebuffer Harry Putnam
2011-07-03 22:07 ` Albert Hopkins [this message]
2011-07-04 3:07 ` [gentoo-user] " Harry Putnam
2011-07-04 3:33 ` covici
2011-07-04 18:12 ` Harry Putnam
2011-07-04 18:46 ` covici
2011-07-04 4:18 ` Albert Hopkins
2011-07-04 18:10 ` Harry Putnam
2011-07-04 18:20 ` Mark Knecht
2011-07-04 20:40 ` Alan McKinnon
2011-07-04 20:47 ` Mark Knecht
2011-07-04 20:57 ` Alan McKinnon
2011-07-04 21:15 ` Mark Knecht
2011-07-04 21:34 ` Alan McKinnon
2011-07-04 22:25 ` Neil Bothwick
2011-07-04 23:45 ` Mark Knecht
2011-07-05 0:52 ` Joshua Murphy
2011-07-04 19:07 ` Nikos Chantziaras
2011-07-05 0:48 ` Harry Putnam
2011-07-05 1:41 ` Nikos Chantziaras
2011-07-04 19:35 ` Albert Hopkins
2011-07-05 15:27 ` covici
2011-07-05 22:50 ` Albert Hopkins
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