[gentoo-user] boot messages; vga; vesa; HDTV monitor

[gentoo-user] boot messages; vga; vesa; HDTV monitor

[7v5w7go9ub0o]

A few years back I installed gentoo and everything worked fine, except 
that the OS bootup messages were too "big", and scrolled by too fast.

Somewhere I found a tweak (IIRC, it involved recompiling the kernel) 
that handled it fine - i.e. the font was reduced dramatically after the 
bios was booted, right at the beginning of the OS booting.



Today I replaced my monitor with an HDTV monitor which works fine during 
the bios boot; works fine after X is booted; but is "shakey" and 
unreliable during the OS boot.

I have worked around these symptoms by adding vga=ask to lilo.conf, and 
then telling it to use vga.

Questions:

1. Anyone aware of a wiki or other gentoo "help" that describes how to 
change the boot message "size" during boot? It is possible that I simply 
added a framebuffer, but it seems that I changed some config. somewhere 
as well.

2. Anyone have a workaround for using a new HDTV monitor with an older 
ATI graphics card?


TIA

Re: [gentoo-user] boot messages; vga; vesa; HDTV monitor

[Volker Armin Hemmann]

On Saturday 29 November 2008, 7v5w7go9ub0o wrote:

>
> 1. Anyone aware of a wiki or other gentoo "help" that describes how to
> change the boot message "size" during boot?

yes, it is. In /usr/src/Documentation.

[gentoo-user] Re: boot messages; vga; vesa; HDTV monitor

[7v5w7go9ub0o]

Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
> On Saturday 29 November 2008, 7v5w7go9ub0o wrote:
> 
>> 1. Anyone aware of a wiki or other gentoo "help" that describes how to
>> change the boot message "size" during boot?
> 
> yes, it is. In /usr/src/Documentation.
> 

Thanks for the reply.

Wasn't able to find any reference here (/usr/src/linux/Documentation) to 
anything other than configuring the kernel for framebuffer alternatives.

Either way, it seems that my HDTV monitor is not very happy with the 
framebuffer - but works great with X.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: boot messages; vga; vesa; HDTV monitor

[Volker Armin Hemmann]

On Monday 01 December 2008, 7v5w7go9ub0o wrote:
> Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
> > On Saturday 29 November 2008, 7v5w7go9ub0o wrote:
> >> 1. Anyone aware of a wiki or other gentoo "help" that describes how to
> >> change the boot message "size" during boot?
> >
> > yes, it is. In /usr/src/Documentation.
>
> Thanks for the reply.
>
> Wasn't able to find any reference here (/usr/src/linux/Documentation) to
> anything other than configuring the kernel for framebuffer alternatives.
>
> Either way, it seems that my HDTV monitor is not very happy with the
> framebuffer - but works great with X.


have you looked here?
/usr/src/linux/Documentation/fb/
/usr/src/linux/Documentation/fb/vesafb.txt
/usr/src/linux/Documentation/fb/framebuffer.txt

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: boot messages; vga; vesa; HDTV monitor

[john stampe]

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Not sure if this will answer your question, but you can adjust which font is used by the kernel framebuffer either in the kernel:
Device Drivers -->
    Graphics Support -->
        Console Display Driver Support -->
            [] Select compiled-in fonts

or by adding fbcon=font<name> as a boot option.

Regards,
John




________________________________
From: 7v5w7go9ub0o <7v5w7go9ub0o@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Sent: Monday, December 1, 2008 8:29:48 AM
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: boot messages; vga; vesa; HDTV monitor

Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
> On Saturday 29 November 2008, 7v5w7go9ub0o wrote:
> 
>> 1. Anyone aware of a wiki or other gentoo "help" that describes how to
>> change the boot message "size" during boot?
> 
> yes, it is. In /usr/src/Documentation.
> 

Thanks for the reply.

Wasn't able to find any reference here (/usr/src/linux/Documentation) to anything other than configuring the kernel for framebuffer alternatives.

Either way, it seems that my HDTV monitor is not very happy with the framebuffer - but works great with X.


      

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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: boot messages; vga; vesa; HDTV monitor

[john stampe]

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Oops, a slight typo in the last message the boot option should be

fbcon=font:<name>

John




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From: john stampe <jwstampe@yahoo.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Sent: Monday, December 1, 2008 6:11:47 PM
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: boot messages; vga; vesa; HDTV monitor


Not sure if this will answer your question, but you can adjust which font is used by the kernel framebuffer either in the kernel:
Device Drivers -->
    Graphics Support -->
        Console Display Driver Support -->
            [] Select compiled-in fonts

or by adding fbcon=font<name> as a boot option.

Regards,
John




________________________________
From: 7v5w7go9ub0o <7v5w7go9ub0o@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Sent: Monday, December 1, 2008 8:29:48 AM
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: boot messages; vga; vesa; HDTV monitor

Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
> On Saturday 29 November 2008, 7v5w7go9ub0o wrote:
> 
>> 1. Anyone aware of a wiki or other gentoo "help" that describes how to
>> change the boot message "size" during boot?
> 
> yes, it is. In /usr/src/Documentation.
> 

Thanks for the reply.

Wasn't able to find any reference here (/usr/src/linux/Documentation) to anything other than configuring the kernel for framebuffer alternatives.

Either way, it seems that my HDTV monitor is not very happy with the framebuffer - but works great with X.


      

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