From: Albert Hopkins <marduk@letterboxes.org>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: about boot with framebuffer
Date: Mon, 04 Jul 2011 00:18:50 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1309753131.5163.2.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87tyb22173.fsf@newsguy.com>
On Sunday, July 3 at 22:07 (-0500), Harry Putnam said:
> this is a no X machine... it appears at the cited URL they expect you
> to be running xorg.
KMS doesn't require X, but Xorg can use it. Basically Xorg can let the
kernel handle graphics mode setting and gets out of the way.
But KMS doesn't require X. The link I provided shows how to enable KMS.
it just happens to be in part of the Xorg docs.
-a
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-07-04 4:20 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
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 [this message]
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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