From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1Hubvi-0008Sz-4I for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 02 Jun 2007 22:18:38 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l52MHQjG003409; Sat, 2 Jun 2007 22:17:26 GMT Received: from spore.ath.cx (c-24-245-14-14.hsd1.mn.comcast.net [24.245.14.14]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l52MBUwa028610 for ; Sat, 2 Jun 2007 22:11:31 GMT Received: from pascal.spore.ath.cx (pascal.spore.ath.cx [192.168.1.100]) by spore.ath.cx (Postfix) with ESMTP id C179729835 for ; Sat, 2 Jun 2007 17:11:30 -0500 (CDT) Date: Sat, 2 Jun 2007 17:11:30 -0500 From: Dan Farrell To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] framebuffer questions Message-ID: <20070602171130.44d1665c@pascal.spore.ath.cx> In-Reply-To: <304801.31917.qm@web31704.mail.mud.yahoo.com> References: <304801.31917.qm@web31704.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Organization: Spore, Ltd. X-Mailer: Claws Mail 2.9.1 (GTK+ 2.10.6; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 1c1e58fb-f51a-49b4-bfe3-f261a4e2763b X-Archives-Hash: a10beb3040df1983006eeff792397983 On Sat, 2 Jun 2007 13:53:36 -0700 (PDT) maxim wexler wrote: > Hi group. > > For a 2.6.19 kernel w/ATI Rage128 card on a non-X box. > I've been experimenting with the framebuffer and > following the > > http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Framebuffer:Bootsplash:Grubsplash > > I'd like at the least for the entire page to appear in > elinks at once without having to scroll from side to > side to read something > > Under graphics support I chose <*>vesa-tng and default > mode 1024x768@72. Just guessing. FWIW using a > Mag-Innovision monitor XJ500T c 1996. Don't have a > clue of it's Hsync or Vsync specs. > > I did emerge bootsplash but haven't config'd it yet. > > According to a posting on this group I added > > video=vesafs:1024x768-72:ywrap:mtrr > > to the kernel line in grub.conf, installed the > bootloader and booted. > > This is what > > $dmesg|grep -i vesa > > reveals: > > Kernel command line: root=/dev/hda3 > video=vesafb:1024x768-72:ywrap:mtrr For me, | dan@pascal ~ $ cat /proc/cmdline | root=/dev/sda3 video=vesafb:mtrr,ywrap vga=0x031b See the comma? Also, you don't need to use vga, but are you sure you don't want an '@' where you have a '-' ? > > > > > ____________________________________________________________________________________ > Moody friends. Drama queens. Your life? Nope! - their life, your > story. Play Sims Stories at Yahoo! Games. http://sims.yahoo.com/ -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list