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 1Qduem-0000xF-5u for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 05 Jul 2011 01:42:32 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0424721C040; Tue, 5 Jul 2011 01:41:03 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C408121C040 for ; Tue, 5 Jul 2011 01:41:03 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 580801B4006 for ; Tue, 5 Jul 2011 01:41:03 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new using ClamAV at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -4.914 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-4.914 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=1.685, 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 yPGgdRUd9GYn for ; Tue, 5 Jul 2011 01:40:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: from lo.gmane.org (lo.gmane.org [80.91.229.12]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 915871B4007 for ; Tue, 5 Jul 2011 01:40:54 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Qdud9-0005Ls-TH for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Tue, 05 Jul 2011 03:40:51 +0200 Received: from athedsl-393920.home.otenet.gr ([79.131.90.190]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 05 Jul 2011 03:40:51 +0200 Received: from realnc by athedsl-393920.home.otenet.gr with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 05 Jul 2011 03:40:51 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: Nikos Chantziaras Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: about boot with framebuffer Date: Tue, 05 Jul 2011 04:41:10 +0300 Organization: Lucas Barks Message-ID: References: <87wrfzm4bv.fsf@newsguy.com> <1309730856.64890.2.camel@localhost.localdomain> <87tyb22173.fsf@newsguy.com> <1309753131.5163.2.camel@localhost.localdomain> <87liwd29y6.fsf@newsguy.com> <87d3hp1riy.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=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: athedsl-393920.home.otenet.gr User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:5.0) Gecko/20110704 Thunderbird/5.0 In-Reply-To: <87d3hp1riy.fsf@newsguy.com> X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 627d7e62bc3ce283585361247d45afa9 On 07/05/2011 03:48 AM, Harry Putnam wrote: > Nikos Chantziaras writes: > [...] > > Harry wrote: >>> So I'm a little confused. > > Nikos replied: >> The guide deals with how to make X.Org use KMS. That does not mean >> that KMS requires X. For your X-less machine, all you need to do is >> enable the driver for your card in the kernel config, and make sure to >> also enable KMS. You need to disable the VESA/uvesafb drivers to >> avoid conflicts. >> >> What graphics card do you have, btw? > > The gentoo install is a guest (Virtual Box) vm hosted on win 7. I don't think there's a KMS driver for VirtualBox (AFAIK, the kernel has one only for VMWare.) So no need to investigate this further.