From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DuyWX-0002Vk-El for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 19 Jul 2005 20:17:05 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j6JKDwaD013339; Tue, 19 Jul 2005 20:13:58 GMT Received: from smtp108.mail.sc5.yahoo.com (smtp108.mail.sc5.yahoo.com [66.163.170.6]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j6JK6AJD031208 for ; Tue, 19 Jul 2005 20:06:11 GMT Received: (qmail 45850 invoked from network); 19 Jul 2005 20:07:12 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?192.168.50.105?) (richard?j?fish@212.180.33.26 with plain) by smtp108.mail.sc5.yahoo.com with SMTP; 19 Jul 2005 20:07:12 -0000 Message-ID: <42DD5E20.3000402@asmallpond.org> Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2005 22:10:08 +0200 From: Richard Fish User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.5 (X11/20050715) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] After attempting fb'ing with nvidia, xfce fonts are tiny. References: <1121798917.42dd4b058a2ff@www.nexusmail.uwaterloo.ca> In-Reply-To: <1121798917.42dd4b058a2ff@www.nexusmail.uwaterloo.ca> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 553fd323-6d38-4558-9c8b-603f1973eff3 X-Archives-Hash: a981e596abbb7cce220c4aacf0401f3e cafairle@engmail.uwaterloo.ca wrote: >So I started out compiling 2.6.12-r6 with frame buffer support adding in vesafb. >Tried various grub lines at various res's, got nothing but distorted console >fonts (started 1/3 way over on screen w/ wrap around plus a duplication on the >line at the start, only the very top line of the screen displayed correctly). >Tried rivafb, not compatable with nvidia driver, tried nvidiafb, no luck. Nvidia >driver wouldnt even load in any configuration i tried. > > Sorry for the multiple replies, but did you happen to try the vbemode/nocrtc options with vesafb-tng? See /usr/src/linux/Documentation/fb/vesafb.txt. >My native resolution is 1680x1050 (17" wsxga LCD). I'm using nvidia 7667 w/ fast >write, side buffering and 8x agp enabled (not the most stable i know, but has >not been problematic). > > Does anything change if you disable these things??? -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list