From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1QEokg-00042E-DP for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 26 Apr 2011 20:20:54 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5A0231C024; Tue, 26 Apr 2011 20:19:29 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.muc.de (colin.muc.de [193.149.48.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D95481C024 for ; Tue, 26 Apr 2011 20:19:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 92114 invoked by uid 3782); 26 Apr 2011 20:19:28 -0000 Received: from acm.muc.de (pD951B819.dip.t-dialin.net [217.81.184.25]) by colin2.muc.de (tmda-ofmipd) with ESMTP; Tue, 26 Apr 2011 22:19:26 +0200 Received: (qmail 8205 invoked by uid 1000); 26 Apr 2011 20:05:30 -0000 Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2011 20:05:30 +0000 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Reinstall Gentoo? [Was: Building pygtk-2.22.0-r1 fails. Help, please!] Message-ID: <20110426200530.GB4266@acm.acm> References: <20110422180508.GA17715@acm.acm> <201104251512.25621.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> <20110425150321.GA4077@acm.acm> <201104251700.59939.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <201104251700.59939.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-Delivery-Agent: TMDA/1.1.5 (Fettercairn) From: Alan Mackenzie X-Primary-Address: acm@muc.de X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 0cfb4ad0cfa02726450c2fd980b581a3 Hi, Nick. On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 05:00:49PM +0100, Mick wrote: > On Monday 25 April 2011 16:03:21 Alan Mackenzie wrote: > > As a matter of interest, do you know how to configure a framebuffer > > console to fill up a wide screen (say, to a width of 170 characters) > > as contrasted with the 128 characters which were optimum on an old > > fashioned CRT? > I think that things have moved on since the first time you installed > Gentoo. Latest kernels have the ability to load firmware for your > video card that takes account of the native resolution of the monitor - > without any additional framebuffer drivers (like vesa, uvesa, radeonfb, > etc.) As a matter of fact you'll get a blank screen if you try to boot > the latest kernels with KMS configured using any additional framebuffer > driver. Indeed. :-( > To save me describing each step, you would do better reading through > this page which details everything you need to do: > http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/xorg-config.xml A fascinating document. Thanks! > -- > Regards, > Mick -- Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).