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 4.54) id 1FV1C2-0006T1-KP for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 16 Apr 2006 06:57:11 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.6/8.13.5) with SMTP id k3G6u9nO025208; Sun, 16 Apr 2006 06:56:09 GMT Received: from mk-smarthost-1.mail.uk.tiscali.com (mk-smarthost-1.mail.uk.tiscali.com [212.74.114.37]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.6/8.13.5) with ESMTP id k3G6oZ8L029788 for ; Sun, 16 Apr 2006 06:50:35 GMT Received: from 88-104-91-230.dynamic.dsl.as9105.com (HELO mk-smarthost-8.mail.uk.tiscali.com) ([88.104.91.230]) by mk-smarthost-1.mail.uk.tiscali.com with ESMTP; 16 Apr 2006 07:50:34 +0100 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AesRAISEQUSIXwIdDQ Received: from 88-104-91-230.dynamic.dsl.as9105.com ([88.104.91.230]:34713) by mk-smarthost-8.mail.uk.tiscali.com with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1FV15e-000GPT-MS for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Sun, 16 Apr 2006 06:50:34 +0000 Message-ID: <4441E93B.7060207@tiscali.co.uk> Date: Sun, 16 Apr 2006 07:50:35 +0100 From: Rohit Sharma User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20060222 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] X11 + framebuffer - does it work? References: <44418272.9030208@tiscali.co.uk> <7573e9640604151955n31298406j689081bad5ddfb62@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <7573e9640604151955n31298406j689081bad5ddfb62@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: c36f170d-4cb7-4c4f-bafe-d73c0eef03d7 X-Archives-Hash: b25e7131a59624bbf2c1e8443fceec00 Richard Fish wrote: >I would suggest not dealing with bootsplash issues at this point, and >work on getting a stable framebuffer working. Once you have that, the >bootsplash side of things is pretty straight-forward. > > Thank, Richard - I shall follow you advice. You chose the following I presume? - kernel sources [gentoo-sources] - in kernel config [chose framebuffer-tng] - X11 served by Xorg Any tips for me to ensure that my consoles are not corrupted once X starts and I want command line ob consoles. I think that is what you meant by stable-framebuffer, didn't you? Please bear with me in case this has been answered before. Apologies in that case - and I would really appreciate any pointers. Thank you so much Rohit -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list