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Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2009 10:52:34 -0300
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Frame-buffer modes on an eee-pc
From: Daniel da Veiga <danieldaveiga@gmail.com>
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On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 08:02, Peter Humphrey <peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org> wrote:
> Hello list,
>
> My wife has a nice new Asus 1005AH and I'm installing Gentoo on it so that
> she won't have to struggle with the likes of Lookout Inarush.
>
> I've spent several days so far exploring blind alleys while getting the box
> to boot with a working Ethernet connection; eventually I discovered that I
> had to go to gentoo-sources-2.6.31, and I now have a running text-mode
> system.
>
> While messing about at the weekend I found a frame-buffer mode I liked, but
> now I can't reproduce it. The graphics chip is an Intel 945GME Express, I
> have intelfb and i2c-dev compiled into the 2.6.31 kernel, and this grub
> entry:
>
> root (hd0,4)
> kernel /kernel-2.6.31-gentoo root=/dev/sda6 video=intelfb:mode=1024x600
> softlevel=no-x
>
> When I accidentally hit on the configuration I liked, the display started at
> the standard 80x25, then when it got to "Waiting for uevents to be
> processed" the screen blanked and then continued in something like 60 lines
> (I didn't actually count them); finally at udev-postmount the line length
> was changef from 80 to something like 120 (I didn't count that either). A
> very pretty display, clear as crystal.
>
> Can anybody point me to the config I need? I've tried google of course but
> no joy there.
>
Have you tried:
http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Intel_GMA
Specially the part that explains the new Kernel Modesetting?
The new GEM and some new features in newer kernels are pretty much all
I neeeded for my framebuffer.
--
Daniel da Veiga