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 1RFCwz-0001Nk-P5 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 15 Oct 2011 22:43:33 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4FD5421C0BC; Sat, 15 Oct 2011 22:43:14 +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 7E86321C059 for ; Sat, 15 Oct 2011 22:42:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ywm19 with SMTP id 19so1936069ywm.40 for ; Sat, 15 Oct 2011 15:42:18 -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=vIeP1pz65lsvNn/c8kfRlDddYc5rVAyTUBpNXSvMUuA=; b=KgUA3dCT1p9V7O7ppCow1S2xzRgTO5E3ogZ6Vq1lAdn2D+4ov/MH9DqWxlJCiduHS9 7yw0XcRwXdeTtOnbO2slr/lOzxfPAHOlXZI8R8YuQmiqJP/mhq/9dVc6olFCn3Z+p5ZP INOXERGEGmbCCw8Q0Q9+GfCya04huzExsfaZE= Received: by 10.236.77.131 with SMTP id d3mr19109361yhe.124.1318718537936; Sat, 15 Oct 2011 15:42:17 -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 n80sm11187424yhh.7.2011.10.15.15.42.16 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Sat, 15 Oct 2011 15:42:16 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4E9A0CB6.6070007@gmail.com> Date: Sat, 15 Oct 2011 18:44:06 -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> <4E99E80E.3020505@gmail.com> <1662567.MLaeLFogCY@pc> In-Reply-To: <1662567.MLaeLFogCY@pc> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.1.2 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 734be58c9bc7decaac669b9791c2400d On 10/15/11 16:21, Michael Schreckenbauer wrote: > >> Documentation for my monitor states that the max resolution is >> 1920x1080@60 Hz > To get this resolution that early you need kms. > > Check your kernel-config: > > CONFIG_DRM_RADEON=m > CONFIG_DRM_RADEON_KMS=y > CONFIG_FRAMEBUFFER_CONSOLE=y > # CONFIG_FB_RADEON is not set Okay, I had this configured properly > Then you need > radeon.modeset=1 > instead of the vga=... stuff in your grub.conf. > > Also, see: > http://www.x.org/wiki/radeonBuildHowTo#Kernel-basedModeSetting This must have been the issue because when I put the radeon.modeset=1 in my grub.conf file, I booted to the command prompt. Still no penguins on bootup and I had the when booting to the install CD. I'm pretty sure I have what I need to have in the kernel to get them. Thanks for the help! :-) Colleen -- Registered Linux User #411143 with the Linux Counter, http://counter.li.org