[gentoo-user] remove fancy framebuffer on boot

[gentoo-user] remove fancy framebuffer on boot

[Tami King]

Hello,

I have a new laptop and when it boots after the initial start up the
output goes from a larger text to something very small with the penguins
displayed. My desktop doesn't do this and I am pretty sure that I shut
if off there and I don't remember what I did and my searches haven't
turned up anything useful at this point. If I don't want framebuffer
with the images and small text, what do I need to do to get rid of it?

Thanks,
Tami

[gentoo-user] Re: remove fancy framebuffer on boot

[Nikos Chantziaras]

On 27/10/12 19:22, Tami King wrote:
> I have a new laptop and when it boots after the initial start up the
> output goes from a larger text to something very small with the penguins
> displayed. My desktop doesn't do this and I am pretty sure that I shut
> if off there and I don't remember what I did and my searches haven't
> turned up anything useful at this point. If I don't want framebuffer
> with the images and small text, what do I need to do to get rid of it?

You can brutally murder poor Tux with:

   logo.nologo

in your kernel parameters.  As for the font, you should select a bigger 
one in /etc/conf.d/consolefont.  There's information in that file on 
where to find the available choices.

Re: [gentoo-user] remove fancy framebuffer on boot

[Volker Armin Hemmann]

Am Samstag, 27. Oktober 2012, 11:22:08 schrieb Tami King:
> Hello,
> 
> I have a new laptop and when it boots after the initial start up the
> output goes from a larger text to something very small with the penguins
> displayed. My desktop doesn't do this and I am pretty sure that I shut
> if off there and I don't remember what I did and my searches haven't
> turned up anything useful at this point. If I don't want framebuffer
> with the images and small text, what do I need to do to get rid of it?
> 
> Thanks,
> Tami

no framebuffer?

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Re: [gentoo-user] remove fancy framebuffer on boot

[Neil Bothwick]

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On Sat, 27 Oct 2012 11:22:08 -0500, Tami King wrote:

> I have a new laptop and when it boots after the initial start up the
> output goes from a larger text to something very small with the penguins
> displayed.


That sounds like kernel modesetting (KMS), disable it by adding nomodeset
to the kernel parameters.


-- 
Neil Bothwick

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