Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Whether Gentoo framebuffer console support 1280*800?

["Conway S. Smith" <beolach@xmission.com>]

On Sun, 21 Sep 2008 14:41:45 -0500
»Q« <boxcars@gmx.net> wrote:
> On Sun, 21 Sep 2008 20:52:05 +0800
> "Astomi Chen" <astomister@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > Hi gentoo friends,
> > 
> > I'm a newbie in gentoo world.
> > 
> > I follow Gentoo Handbook to installl a new sytem in Vmware. My
> > question is the new system console is 800*600. I want to change to
> > 1280*800(my laptop in windows in this szie).
> > 
> > I search in Gentoo Forums, find a thread
> > http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=49036 about this topic.
> > 
> > If I add video=vesafb:ywrap,mtrr vga=0x317 in grub, system.failed
> > to start.
> 
> <http://dev.gentoo.org/~spock/projects/uvesafb/>

In my experience, uvesafb is slower & doesn't actually support any
more resolutions than vesafb, so I don't use it myself; other than
one really nifty uvesafb has.  It probes the video card & attached
display to determine supported modes, and provides that list in
/sys/devices/platform/uvesafb.0/vbe_modes.  So I'll use uvesafb to
get that list, and choose a resolution I want from it, and then use
vesafb w/ that video mode.


YMMV,
Conway S. Smith
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