From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JDGyg-0004dZ-Cr for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 11 Jan 2008 10:19:06 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C37A1E0C51; Fri, 11 Jan 2008 10:16:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtprelay.hostedemail.com (unknown [216.40.44.170]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4518EE0B25 for ; Fri, 11 Jan 2008 10:16:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: from emd2-omf02.hostedemail.com (ff-bigip1 [10.5.19.254]) by smtprelay03.hostedemail.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6FB8A94DFA for ; Fri, 11 Jan 2008 10:16:45 +0000 (UTC) X-SpamScore: 2 X-Spamcatcher-Summary: 2,0,0,b3a21158623048c1,6e03c9833cf2bd35,roy@wright.org,-,RULES_HIT:152:355:379:599:854:857:945:946:967:973:988:989:1187:1260:1261:1277:1311:1313:1314:1345:1359:1437:1515:1516:1518:1534:1538:1593:1594:1676:1711:1714:1730:1747:1766:1792:2393:2525:2559:2563:2682:2685:2687:2693:2857:2859:2933:2937:2939:2942:2945:2947:2951:2954:3022:3027:3350:3622:3770:3865:3866:3867:3869:3870:3871:3873:3934:3936:3938:3941:3944:4384:5007:6119:7652:7679,0,RBL:none,CacheIP:none, Bayesian:0.5,0.5,0.5,Netcheck:none,DomainCache:0,MSF:not bulk,SPF:,MSBL:none,DNSBL:none X-Spamcatcher-Explanation: Received: from [192.168.80.20] (Port45.TB3.industryinet.com [66.63.237.45]) (Authenticated sender: roy@wright.org) by emd2-omf02.hostedemail.com (Postfix) with ESMTP for ; Fri, 11 Jan 2008 10:16:45 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <4787420C.5030208@wright.org> Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2008 04:16:44 -0600 From: Roy Wright User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.9 (X11/20071118) 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 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Kernel setting for frame buffer (2.6.23-r5) References: <87odbu982e.fsf@newsguy.com> <200801092217.37172.shrdlu@unlimitedmail.org> <20080109235738.6c20ecaa@mating-tux> <200801101018.35709.shrdlu@unlimitedmail.org> In-Reply-To: <200801101018.35709.shrdlu@unlimitedmail.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.5 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 29a70ae4-67a0-40a3-a41b-4c3c1dfcbe60 X-Archives-Hash: 386ccf8676939be91926b04252209c23 Howdy, emerge sys-libs/lrmi then from a console run: vbetest this will display the video modes your graphics card supports. Note I had differing results running from an xterm, so I suggest running from a console with X stopped. You might want to look at using uvesa: http://dev.gentoo.org/~spock/projects/uvesafb/ I'm in the middle of getting the new fbsplash stuff installed (didn't work first try :-) but the higher res console works fine with uvesa (which is what I really wanted in the first place). HTH, Roy -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list