[gentoo-user] New install .. no high res console during boot.

[gentoo-user] New install .. no high res console during boot.

[Harry Putnam]

Setup:
Installing gentoo-17 as guest in Vbox vm on solaris-11 HOST 
                           (openindiana (powered by Illumos))

VBox 5.6.2
Kernel-4.15.0
grub2

I'm a litte confused about how to enable a high res framebuffer
console.

At gentoo pages:
https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Xorg/Guide#Kernel_modesetting

I've followed the directions there as far as I could.

lspci on a chroot does not show a driver for the:
  Innotek Systemberatung Gmbh VirtualBox Graphics Adapter.

And I find nothing about Innotek searching with '/' in menuconfig.
So could not make any specific settings like those shows on the gentoo
wiki pages for nVidia and AND/ATI

Other pages such as https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Fbsplash seem to
indicate I would need to create an initramfs.

The first page cited near the top of post .. tells you NOT to set some
of the things the citation containing fbsplash (above) tell you to set.

Such as  <*> Userspace VESA VGA
         [*] Vesa VGA

Is something outdate in one of those pages?

Can someone using the kernel framebuffer explain how to do it on
gentoo guest of vm?

Re: [gentoo-user] New install .. no high res console during boot.

[Corbin Bird]

On 01/31/2018 07:38 AM, Harry Putnam wrote:
> Setup:
> Installing gentoo-17 as guest in Vbox vm on solaris-11 HOST 
>                            (openindiana (powered by Illumos))
>
> VBox 5.6.2
> Kernel-4.15.0
> grub2
>
> I'm a litte confused about how to enable a high res framebuffer
> console.
>
> At gentoo pages:
> https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Xorg/Guide#Kernel_modesetting
>
> I've followed the directions there as far as I could.
>
> lspci on a chroot does not show a driver for the:
>   Innotek Systemberatung Gmbh VirtualBox Graphics Adapter.
>
> And I find nothing about Innotek searching with '/' in menuconfig.
> So could not make any specific settings like those shows on the gentoo
> wiki pages for nVidia and AND/ATI
>
> Other pages such as https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Fbsplash seem to
> indicate I would need to create an initramfs.
>
> The first page cited near the top of post .. tells you NOT to set some
> of the things the citation containing fbsplash (above) tell you to set.
>
> Such as  <*> Userspace VESA VGA
>          [*] Vesa VGA
>
> Is something outdate in one of those pages?
>
> Can someone using the kernel framebuffer explain how to do it on
> gentoo guest of vm?
>
>
>
.
Searched for that "device" and found a few interesting links:
> https://askubuntu.com/questions/435940/do-i-need-linux-drivers-for-virtual-box
> https://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch04.html
.
If Linux has no access to the actual hardware ... the old "VGA=" hex
codes might work :
> https://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/debian-26/lilo-vga-modes-152575/
I have never tried the codes on "Userspace VESA VGA".
Might want to leave that out for a test run.

.
Corbin