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 1MI3MN-0007tS-DI for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 20 Jun 2009 16:24:09 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E1319E0339; Sat, 20 Jun 2009 16:24:05 +0000 (UTC) Received: from wlym.com (wlym.com [66.135.63.43]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 97816E0339 for ; Sat, 20 Jun 2009 16:24:05 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ccs.covici.com (pool-70-109-54-11.clppva.fios.verizon.net [70.109.54.11]) (authenticated bits=128) by wlym.com (8.14.3/8.14.3/Debian-5) with ESMTP id n5KGO1K5003221 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT) for ; Sat, 20 Jun 2009 11:24:04 -0500 Received: from ccs.covici.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ccs.covici.com (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id n5KGNwYf014807 for ; Sat, 20 Jun 2009 12:24:01 -0400 Received: (from covici@localhost) by ccs.covici.com (8.14.2/8.13.7/Submit) id n5KGNwN7014806; Sat, 20 Jun 2009 12:23:58 -0400 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-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <19005.3358.389130.235620@ccs.covici.com> Date: Sat, 20 Jun 2009 12:23:58 -0400 From: John covici To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] uvesafb will not work on my dell d820 laptop? In-Reply-To: <4A3D0C1D.1050504@leehouse.eclipse.co.uk> References: <19004.33663.945703.655843@ccs.covici.com> <4A3D0C1D.1050504@leehouse.eclipse.co.uk> X-Mailer: VM ?bug? under Emacs 23.0.94.1 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) X-Archives-Salt: a4e56b8c-13af-48e8-b11d-963344029ed5 X-Archives-Hash: 76cc2dba199c7a1c28a944a5067511cc on Saturday 06/20/2009 Ian Lee(ian@leehouse.eclipse.co.uk) wrote > John covici wrote: > > Hi. I have a Dell Latitude D820 laptop and for the life of me, I > > can't get uvesafb to work. There are no messages, I just get the 25 > > lines by 80 column screen. I emerged clib, and v86d and made sure my > > .config had /usr/share/v86d/initramfs as the initramfs source, and I > > have uvesafb built in to the kernel. My boot time command line > > arguments to lilo are: > > init=/linuxrc ramdisk=8192 real_root=/dev/sda5 udev > > video=uvesafb:1024x768 speakup.synth=spkout > > (all on one line in the original). > > > > Attached is my emerge --info and my kernel config -- assistance would > > be appreciated. > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > > > > > According to you kernel config, uvesafb is not built in to the kernel, > but as a module. Try building it in to the kernel and not as a module. > OK, thought it was built in, will try again -- thanks. -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici covici@ccs.covici.com