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 1QdZXA-0006hN-GR for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 04 Jul 2011 03:09:16 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 079BA21C055; Mon, 4 Jul 2011 03:07:53 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C072621C055 for ; Mon, 4 Jul 2011 03:07:53 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 586B11B400A for ; Mon, 4 Jul 2011 03:07:53 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new using ClamAV at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -5.323 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-5.323 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=1.276, BAYES_00=-2.599, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_MED=-4] 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 UKklO0lOh2hn for ; Mon, 4 Jul 2011 03:07:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: from lo.gmane.org (lo.gmane.org [80.91.229.12]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8B70D1B401A for ; Mon, 4 Jul 2011 03:07:45 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QdZVc-0002OF-1V for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Mon, 04 Jul 2011 05:07:40 +0200 Received: from c-98-215-231-30.hsd1.in.comcast.net ([98.215.231.30]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 04 Jul 2011 05:07:40 +0200 Received: from reader by c-98-215-231-30.hsd1.in.comcast.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 04 Jul 2011 05:07:40 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: Harry Putnam Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: about boot with framebuffer Date: Sun, 03 Jul 2011 22:07:28 -0500 Organization: Still searching... Message-ID: <87tyb22173.fsf@newsguy.com> References: <87wrfzm4bv.fsf@newsguy.com> <1309730856.64890.2.camel@localhost.localdomain> 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=utf-8 X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: c-98-215-231-30.hsd1.in.comcast.net User-Agent: Gnus/5.110018 (No Gnus v0.18) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:6qj8DXLk7aICnCf64s34ynRwkCI= Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 80923cb52dc93fff9cc63c7812b95dcb Albert Hopkins writes: > On Sunday, July 3 at 16:39 (-0500), Harry Putnam said: > >> I've been booting with a framebuffer for some time. So long that I >> fear my kernel line may be out of date. >>=20 > > A lot of people nowadays are using KMS. It's the one true way=E2=84=A2= for > doing console/X mode settings. But if you have a procraprietary driver > it may not work. > > http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/xorg-config.xml#doc_chap2 this is a no X machine... it appears at the cited URL they expect you to be running xorg. What I'm after is a console Framebuffer with higher resolution to shink the fonts down and enlarge the terminal. (on a console) I've been able to do this for years using VESA. =20