Re: [gentoo-user] uvesafb fails to work

[Mick <michaelkintzios@gmail.com>]

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On Sunday 30 March 2008, Daniel Pielmeier wrote:

> So this depend on the Video Bios of your card and you maybe can't do
> anything about it!
>
> Although 1280x1024 should normally work and i guess you use this
> resolution for your Desktop. How do you generate your initrd? Which card
> do you have?
>
> "dmesg | grep uvesafb" and "fbset --info -v"?

# dmesg | grep uvesafb
Kernel command line: root=/dev/sda3 video=uvesafb:1024x768-32@64,ywrap,mtrr:4 
splash=silent,fadein,theme:emergence quiet CONSOLE=/dev/tty1
uvesafb: ATI Technologies Inc., V380, 01.00, OEM: ATI RV380, VBE v2.0
uvesafb: protected mode interface info at c000:5884
uvesafb: pmi: set display start = c00c5918, set palette = c00c5964
uvesafb: pmi: ports = b010 b016 b054 b038 b03c b05c b000 b004 b0b0 b0b2 b0b4 
uvesafb: no monitor limits have been set, default refresh rate will be used
uvesafb: VBE state buffer size cannot be determined (eax=0x0, err=0)
uvesafb: scrolling: ywrap using protected mode interface, yres_virtual=1536
uvesafb: framebuffer at 0xd0000000, mapped to 0xf8880000, using 6144k, total 
16384k

fbset gives me bash: command not found.  Should have I emerged something here?  
Can't remember seeing this in the wiki article, as in it wasn't a must for fb 
splash to work (I think).
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Regards,
Mick

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