From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1QdUqt-0002jH-E6 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 03 Jul 2011 22:09:19 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 604B921C130; Sun, 3 Jul 2011 22:07:37 +0000 (UTC) Received: from out3.smtp.messagingengine.com (out3.smtp.messagingengine.com [66.111.4.27]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3BCC421C12F for ; Sun, 3 Jul 2011 22:07:37 +0000 (UTC) Received: from compute3.internal (compute3.nyi.mail.srv.osa [10.202.2.43]) by gateway1.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id E524D23D9A for ; Sun, 3 Jul 2011 18:07:36 -0400 (EDT) Received: from frontend2.messagingengine.com ([10.202.2.161]) by compute3.internal (MEProxy); Sun, 03 Jul 2011 18:07:36 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=messagingengine.com; h=subject:from:to:date:in-reply-to:references:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id:mime-version; s=smtpout; bh=Uhh480DZDZi8ES8e6ySvfJacHCA=; b=D4z5or6HW1spC3qu6i13wuWD4Ruty98QcQFd6bZUO6tIFkLJpsnuAZraXa4F0qh91Cjch7QppXjhRm3DFYj7xIISszWw61kasVCpWE1BX6XgzkXToNrZi+7asnoeo/mt/1ga1Ry+anntHBL/KJ1Q3gnx+M74BRbRMrJql99Dk7k= X-Sasl-enc: BMc37ctMz4NtFrmSH5VoATyiAahzlgDjZ+ZbWWUPUs85 1309730856 Received: from [192.168.31.28] (cpe-174-109-037-078.nc.res.rr.com [174.109.37.78]) by www.fastmail.fm (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id A23A6441CBB for ; Sun, 3 Jul 2011 18:07:36 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] about boot with framebuffer From: Albert Hopkins To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Date: Sun, 03 Jul 2011 18:07:36 -0400 In-Reply-To: <87wrfzm4bv.fsf@newsguy.com> References: <87wrfzm4bv.fsf@newsguy.com> Face: 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 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" X-Mailer: Evolution 3.0.2 Message-ID: <1309730856.64890.2.camel@localhost.localdomain> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 9209bbc22c765ef0572fb066f81c9880 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 fear my kernel line may be out of date. >=20 A lot of people nowadays are using KMS. It's the one true way=E2=84=A2 f= or 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