Re: [gentoo-user] uvesafb problem

["Chuanwen Wu" <wcw8410@gmail.com>]

Hi,
On Jan 15, 2008 9:52 PM, Kevin <koquinn@gmail.com> wrote:
> Just making sure you didn't read his line incorrectly, but I think Justin
> was telling to go back to the VESA driver as opposed to the uvesa one.   If
> you are set on uvesa did you try the line video=uvesafb:1024x768 or is that
> what you implied in the note about it not working.
>
I mean Justin' s suggestion "video=vesafb:1024x768" didn't work in my machine.
And also, just as what I said in the first post that
"video=uvesafb:1024x768" didn't work, too.
> thanks and good luck
>
>
>
> On Jan 15, 2008 7:40 AM, Chuanwen Wu <wcw8410@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > On Jan 15, 2008 7:25 PM,  <justin@j-schmitz.net> wrote:
> > >
> > > just use
> > >
> > > video=vesafb:1024x768
> > I tried, and it doesn't work.
> > >
> > > :) justin
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > On Tue, 15 Jan 2008 16:44:39 +0800, "Chuanwen Wu" <wcw8410@gmail.com>
> > > wrote:
> > >
> > > > Hi, guys!
> > > >
> > > > I want to have higher resolution in console. I used vesa-tng before
> > > > and now I have update the kernel to 2.6.23 and I guess I should use
> > > > uvesafb instead of vesa-tng.
> > > >
> > > > I have followed the guide here
> > > > http://dev.gentoo.org/~spock/projects/uvesafb/, and
> > > > Here is the options I have chose in config file about the "FB" thing:
> > > >
> > > > CONFIG_FB=y
> > > > CONFIG_FB_DDC=y
> > > > CONFIG_FB_CFB_FILLRECT=y
> > > > CONFIG_FB_CFB_COPYAREA=y
> > > > CONFIG_FB_CFB_IMAGEBLIT=y
> > > > CONFIG_FB_DEFERRED_IO=y
> > > > CONFIG_FB_MODE_HELPERS=y
> > > > CONFIG_FB_UVESA=y
> > > > CONFIG_FB_VESA=y
> > > > CONFIG_FB_INTEL=y
> > > > CONFIG_FB_INTEL_I2C=y
> > > >
> > > > and in the menu.lst file, I append  "video=uvesafb:1024x768" (PS: I
> > > > have tried "video=uvesafb:1024x768-32" and some other similar
> > > > parameter, too)  to the kernel command line.
> > > >  But after I rebooted, the resolution was still very low, which I
> > > > guess was 800x640, and I couldn't see anything changed.
> > > >
> > > > PS: My machine is Dell 1400 laptop and use x86_64 arch. I use
> > > > tuxonice-sources and I have also tried gentoo-source to test the
> > > > uvesafb.
> > > >
> > > > Any help is appreciated!
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