From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5E7961387FD for ; Wed, 11 Jun 2014 15:22:54 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 80ED6E0B91; Wed, 11 Jun 2014 15:22:47 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 7E503E0AEC for ; Wed, 11 Jun 2014 15:22:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CC1A834009F for ; Wed, 11 Jun 2014 15:22:45 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new using ClamAV at gentoo.org X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Spam-Score: 0.012 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.012 tagged_above=-999 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=-0.537, DKIM_ADSP_CUSTOM_MED=0.001, FREEMAIL_FROM=0.001, NML_ADSP_CUSTOM_MED=1.2, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE=-0.0001, RP_MATCHES_RCVD=-0.651, SPF_HELO_PASS=-0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001] autolearn=no Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([IPv6:::ffff:127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [IPv6:::ffff:127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id uhZCbft_5P4s for ; Wed, 11 Jun 2014 15:22:40 +0000 (UTC) Received: from plane.gmane.org (plane.gmane.org [80.91.229.3]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 3167433F8DF for ; Wed, 11 Jun 2014 15:22:39 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1WukMC-0000vD-6x for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Wed, 11 Jun 2014 17:22:32 +0200 Received: from athedsl-352244.home.otenet.gr ([85.72.231.146]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 11 Jun 2014 17:22:32 +0200 Received: from realnc by athedsl-352244.home.otenet.gr with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 11 Jun 2014 17:22:32 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: Nikos Chantziaras Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: problem with v86d Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2014 18:22:15 +0300 Organization: Lucas Barks Message-ID: References: <5805.1402463655@ccs.covici.com> <22892.1402498149@ccs.covici.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@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: athedsl-352244.home.otenet.gr User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.5.0 In-Reply-To: <22892.1402498149@ccs.covici.com> X-Archives-Salt: 26143380-88d6-44f8-94db-1839c2952af9 X-Archives-Hash: 94ad0138f2ecc93980060d99802df3bf On 11/06/14 17:49, covici@ccs.covici.com wrote: > Thanks. I have a fairly old kernel for other reasons and I installed > v86d in 2011 and it has not changed since. I use udesafb because I > want a frame buffer so I can get a lot more than 80x25 in a virtual > console. Iget 64x160. I also need something which will net the nvidia > driver work since this is the card I have. I did try the noveau driver, > but it did not give me as large of a screen and nvidia driver did not > like that driver. I can't remember what it complained about, but it > means no X at all. If you're not booting in EFI mode, then you can use vesafb instead. This doesn't require v86d and doesn't even require an initrd. uvesafb is mostly for non-PC or generally platforms where a BIOS is not available (EFI on a PC also lacks BIOS), and it achieves that through v86d. vesafb uses the BIOS directly, so v86d is not needed.