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From: Mick <michaelkintzios@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Any way to get real text console without killing X capability?
Date: Sat, 5 Feb 2011 18:04:46 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <201102051804.48310.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201102051800.20627.michaelkintzios@gmail.com>

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On Saturday 05 February 2011 18:00:10 Mick wrote:
> On Saturday 05 February 2011 15:27:27 Walter Dnes wrote:

> >   In "make menuconfig", I do not have any drivers enabled under...
> >   
> >     Device Drivers  --->
> >     
> >       Graphics support  --->
> >       -*- Support for frame buffer devices  --->
> > 
> > but I still have /dev/fb0 show up.  Under...
> > 
> >       Console display driver support  --->
> > 
> > the line...
> > 
> >       -*- Framebuffer Console support
> > 
> > indicates that framebuffer console support is enabled, whether I like it
> > or not.  This is part and parcel of the ARI Radeon driver.  Without it,
> > no X.
> 
> Right, but a framebuffer (KMS driven or vesa, et al.) is not a bad thing.
> Just try video=1024x768 (or whatever your desired resolution is) on the
> kernel line and it should just work.

Oops!  Walter please ignore this message ... I just saw that you have solved 
it on your later reply.
-- 
Regards,
Mick

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  reply	other threads:[~2011-02-05 18:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-02-03  6:07 [gentoo-user] Any way to get real text console without killing X capability? Walter Dnes
2011-02-03 14:54 ` Johannes Kimmel
2011-02-03 16:08 ` Paul Hartman
2011-02-03 21:40 ` Mick
2011-02-05 17:10   ` Walter Dnes
2011-02-05 18:31     ` Mick
2011-02-05 23:43     ` Walter Dnes
2011-02-06  1:16       ` [gentoo-user] " walt
2011-02-06  2:33       ` [gentoo-user] " Willie Wong
2011-02-03 22:11 ` [gentoo-user] " Nikos Chantziaras
2011-02-04  0:05   ` walt
2011-02-04  0:33     ` Alan McKinnon
2011-02-04 20:05       ` Enrico Weigelt
2011-02-04  0:37     ` Nikos Chantziaras
2011-02-04 18:10       ` Paul Hartman
2011-02-05  9:02         ` Nikos Chantziaras
2011-02-05 15:27     ` Walter Dnes
2011-02-05 18:00       ` Mick
2011-02-05 18:04         ` Mick [this message]
2011-02-05 19:31         ` Nikos Chantziaras
2011-02-05 23:54           ` Walter Dnes
2011-02-06  1:07             ` Nikos Chantziaras
2011-02-07 16:51               ` Walter Dnes
2011-02-07 20:04                 ` Mick

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