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 1RFAVa-0007GK-BQ for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 15 Oct 2011 20:07:02 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9E19321C211; Sat, 15 Oct 2011 20:06:48 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-yw0-f53.google.com (mail-yw0-f53.google.com [209.85.213.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6831C21C162 for ; Sat, 15 Oct 2011 20:05:54 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ywm19 with SMTP id 19so1879256ywm.40 for ; Sat, 15 Oct 2011 13:05:54 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:x-enigmail-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=ljfOuzMSBF2oPYrC9BGcckHRHRaXxXb32AwdgqQ77lU=; b=aXSzYBG4sUS2eJdnUdG2aARSE0d/6uwARb8NB8L2l9g5QdYJcafu2Mk7QZKoFyswYu YekqWvEEzBAls8NOyOFMWi5TDE34ynkTkyuYYYbyozsOg87x2JMzY0RGiE5/nD8Z1VPP qwUYJntqdZp8L9n+o5e5LRNwa/VRL7cW0mKJg= Received: by 10.150.100.18 with SMTP id x18mr1727557ybb.75.1318709153582; Sat, 15 Oct 2011 13:05:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.2.11] (bas1-hamilton02-1279489609.dsl.bell.ca. [76.67.118.73]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id t7sm10645483anh.15.2011.10.15.13.05.52 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Sat, 15 Oct 2011 13:05:52 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4E99E80E.3020505@gmail.com> Date: Sat, 15 Oct 2011 16:07:42 -0400 From: CJoeB User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.2.17) Gecko/20110602 Lightning/1.0b2 Thunderbird/3.1.10 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] Gentoo Install Issue References: <4E93504A.8090402@gmail.com> <4E935615.6070900@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 1.1.2 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: d0044291f468adc2fdf9fdc868b9eb1b Hi guys, I'm still struggling with this. Gave up last weekend and haven't had time until now. Thought I had it going when I got a command prompt and then, networking wasn't working. Anyway, more details ..... On 10/10/11 16:43, David Abbott wrote: > On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 4:31 PM, CJoeB wrote: >> On 10/10/11 16:17, Michael Mol wrote: >>> On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 4:06 PM, CJoeB wrote: >>>> Today, I went through the install process, had a couple of issues, but >>>> was able to figure them out and got to the point where I was supposed to >>>> boot into my new system. I got the boot menu, the boot process seemed >>>> to be okay, but when I got to the point where I assumed I should get a >>>> command prompt to finish up, all I got was a weird screen that was half >>>> black and half fuzzy with a bunch of colours (sorry, I can describe this >>>> any better). I tried recompiling the kernel thinking it was a problem >>>> that I had created during the initial compilation, but that ended with >>>> the same result. > I would enable kms; > http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Radeon#Kernel_Modesetting_.28KMS.29 > http://forums-web2.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-831521-start-0.html I booted to the Gentoo install CD, went through all the steps to make sure I hadn't missed anything. I followed the directions on the above link for my Radeon card. When I existed the 'chroot'd' environment and rebooted, the system seemed to hang - the last few lines that appear on the screen are: [drm] Loading CAICOS Microcode Refined TSC clocksource calibration: 3392.289 MHz Switching to clocksource tsc I took someone else's advice who responded to my original post and got the output from dmesg after the install CD booted. Below is the entire listing related to the video section: vesafb: mode is 1024x768x16, linelength=2048, pages=9 vesafb:scrolling:redraw vesafb:Truecolor:size=0;5:6:5, shift=0:11:5:0 vesafb:framebuffer at 0xd0000000, mapped to 0xffffc90010100000, using 3072k, total 16384k console: switching to colour framebuffer device 128x48 fb0: VESA VGA framebuffer device I really understand very little of what this is telling me except for the screen resolution and I get that there are hex code references in my grub.conf file the video line is as follows: vga=-0X31B video=vesafb:mtrr,ywrap I read somewhere that for radeon card you use the above statement as opposed to: video=uvesafb:mtrr:ywrap,1920x1080@60 Documentation for my monitor states that the max resolution is 1920x1080@60 Hz Can anyone help me out here? Thanks in advance, Colleen -- Registered Linux User #411143 with the Linux Counter, http://counter.li.org