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 1RGmVP-0001G7-NY for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 20 Oct 2011 06:53:31 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1191621C069; Thu, 20 Oct 2011 06:53:17 +0000 (UTC) Received: from outbound.icp-osb-irony-out9.iinet.net.au (outbound.icp-osb-irony-out9.iinet.net.au [203.59.1.110]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3AA5121C069 for ; Thu, 20 Oct 2011 06:52:19 +0000 (UTC) X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AiUGAHDEn058qPYq/2dsb2JhbABEhHWVI450gQWBbgEBBSNmCw0LAgImAgJXq1uSAIEwhWOBFASIAZEoH4wb X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.69,377,1315152000"; d="scan'208";a="42132840" Received: from unknown (HELO moriah.localdomain) ([124.168.246.42]) by outbound.icp-osb-irony-out9.iinet.net.au with ESMTP; 20 Oct 2011 14:52:17 +0800 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by moriah.localdomain (Postfix) with ESMTP id BC5F592C91 for ; Thu, 20 Oct 2011 14:52:17 +0800 (WST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at lan.localdomain Received: from moriah.localdomain ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (moriah.lan.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id n0kOeJO5CW3Z for ; Thu, 20 Oct 2011 14:52:14 +0800 (WST) Received: from [192.168.48.1] (troll [192.168.48.1]) by moriah.localdomain (Postfix) with ESMTP id 97A6E8AE58 for ; Thu, 20 Oct 2011 14:52:14 +0800 (WST) Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Why can't I set the resolution of console ? From: Bill Kenworthy To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2011 14:52:14 +0800 Message-ID: <1319093534.2053.4.camel@troll> 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 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.32.2 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 7f7f27e5421249411135fda1a7f8728b On Thu, 2011-10-20 at 14:05 +0800, Lavender wrote: > I edit the command line of grub at boot time . > I passed some parametres to kernel like below: > > root=/dev/sda6 video=atyfb:1024x768@60m > > and I also tried another one: > > root=/dev/sda6 video=aty128fb:1024x768@60m > > Both of them didn't show any error messages and the system > can start up, but the resolution still no changed. > > There is an issue happened in my buiding kernel : I hadn't found > the driver for my video card. I'm not sure whether it has anything > to do with this issue? > > BTW, my video card information is below: > > ATI Technologies Inc M92 LP (ATI Radeon 4330 series) you have "aty" in the strings above - shouldnt it be "ati" I dont currently have an ati card to check, but it doesnt look right ... BillK