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 1FVBTH-0004It-Nl for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 16 Apr 2006 17:55:40 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.6/8.13.5) with SMTP id k3GHtMc4019025; Sun, 16 Apr 2006 17:55:22 GMT Received: from wproxy.gmail.com (wproxy.gmail.com [64.233.184.230]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.6/8.13.5) with ESMTP id k3GHnfcT009559 for ; Sun, 16 Apr 2006 17:49:41 GMT Received: by wproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id 57so312177wri for ; Sun, 16 Apr 2006 10:49:40 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:sender:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=VApQLNaOVyEeoA72bpSqqSBf0Aig+IZnhP8cKKD9hWgV+AYcQGeLO84E4XktbHawv8guPMVsWKBreieoG0b6xORZ/erioLof0C+K93C6ee0kuDzGb14fLmkSKaq+kUZpKZERclRxja5E3AZhCIEgJ9K52IdqM35fYDqxnbfcJlk= Received: by 10.54.72.4 with SMTP id u4mr2547288wra; Sun, 16 Apr 2006 10:49:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.54.69.1 with HTTP; Sun, 16 Apr 2006 10:49:40 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <7573e9640604161049u39f361edncaca4d6ae6ac640b@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sun, 16 Apr 2006 10:49:40 -0700 From: "Richard Fish" Sender: richard.j.fish@gmail.com To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] X11 + framebuffer - does it work? In-Reply-To: <4441E93B.7060207@tiscali.co.uk> 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 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline References: <44418272.9030208@tiscali.co.uk> <7573e9640604151955n31298406j689081bad5ddfb62@mail.gmail.com> <4441E93B.7060207@tiscali.co.uk> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by robin.gentoo.org id k3GHnfcT009559 X-Archives-Salt: 05322cfe-17e3-46f7-81fe-385595b46e1f X-Archives-Hash: 85d66b158fc167ff4c1a84421c98d5a8 On 4/15/06, Rohit Sharma wrote: > Thank, Richard - I shall follow you advice. You chose the following I > presume? > - kernel sources [gentoo-sources] I'm using suspend2-sources (notice the 'suspend2' in my kernel version), but gentoo-sources should work also. Everything else is ok. > > 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? Not really...it should just work. If it doesn't, I guess you could experiment with different resolutions for the console. Remember that you can choose the console resolution by changing the video= option passed to the kernel at boot time (e.g. video=vesafb:1400x1050-32@60), or with the fbres command (part of splashutils). -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list