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 1JCfWR-0002Za-2j for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 09 Jan 2008 18:19:27 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B8862E04C5; Wed, 9 Jan 2008 18:18:44 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0C5C6E04C1 for ; Wed, 9 Jan 2008 18:18:44 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 949A564C85 for ; Wed, 9 Jan 2008 18:18:40 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -2.684 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.684 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=-0.085, BAYES_00=-2.599] Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id edY6lI72nZNE for ; Wed, 9 Jan 2008 18:18:34 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ciao.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8E86E64C47 for ; Wed, 9 Jan 2008 18:18:33 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1JCfVO-00045l-Mh for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Wed, 09 Jan 2008 18:18:23 +0000 Received: from adsl-75-3-178-22.dsl.chcgil.sbcglobal.net ([75.3.178.22]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 09 Jan 2008 18:18:22 +0000 Received: from reader by adsl-75-3-178-22.dsl.chcgil.sbcglobal.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 09 Jan 2008 18:18:22 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: reader@newsguy.com Subject: [gentoo-user] Kernel setting for frame buffer (2.6.23-r5) Date: Wed, 09 Jan 2008 12:18:17 -0600 Organization: Still searching... Message-ID: <87odbu982e.fsf@newsguy.com> 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 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: adsl-75-3-178-22.dsl.chcgil.sbcglobal.net User-Agent: Gnus/5.110007 (No Gnus v0.7) Emacs/22.1 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:JCNv6EQfLzEHODg4sddlMtkx9e0= Sender: news X-Archives-Salt: 177128de-6481-4dc2-86db-9be63b7369f7 X-Archives-Hash: 13a8208103f9f42d8a0c32ec30d0ef15 For a good while now I've had a setting like this in grub.conf: (wrapped for mail) kernel /kernel-2.6.23-r5 root=/dev/hda5 \ vga=0x31A video=vesafb:mtrr,ywrap I'm not sure any more how much of that is necessary. I have it there to allow console mode to have much larger resolution than default (The appearance is much smaller text) I think this setting in kernel config is the one needed for that: CONFIG_FB_VESA=y But I'm trying to build a pared down kernel a console only setup. Going thru the kernel settings in menuconfig... I'm not finding the one that creates that `CONFIG_FB_VESA=y' element. I've gone back and forth through the setting under: Device drivers/Graphics-support .. checking Support for FrameBuffer devices (both as module and builtin in different saves). The only other setting that looks to be about framebuffer is Userspace VESA VGA graphics support but I think that one is this line in .config # CONFIG_FB_UVESA is not set Examining the resulting .config with and without that one set I never see this CONFIG_FB_VESA=y That line ends up unset in every way I've thought to try. However it is in the /usr/share/[...]kernel-2.6 config that genkernel uses. I want to have the ability to have the larger resolution in console mode but the kernel build is way pared down from what genkernel would do. So what settings do I need to have the effect like posted in grub.conf line above? -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list