> also, gentoo has a doc:
>
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=1&chap=10
That gives the best explanation. Now dmesg | grep -i
vesa concludes with:
<...>
vesafb: framebuffer at 0xf0000000, mapped to
0xd1900000, using 10240k,total 16384k
fb1: VESA VGA frame buffer device.
But, the screen looks the same. I started out with
1024x768 then changed to 1280x1024 but certain web
pages still do not fit the screen. For example, a
trip to the above handbook address using elinks is an
exercise in frustration. As you scroll down using the
down arrow the page jumps from side to side making it
very difficult to follow.
FWIW if I drop to the grub prompt and use
grub>vbeprobe I get 'vbeprobe 0xffffff00 is not found
or supported'
If I use grub> testvbe 1280 I get
'mode 0x400 not supported'. For 1024, it's
'0x400 not supported'. For 800, it's '0x300 not
supported'. For 640, '0x200 not supported'.
Which is weird cause the monitor is clearly using
*some kind of mode*.
If I manually enter the kernel line at the prompt w/o
mentioning the framebuffer at all one is installed
anyway which is just like all the others :(
mw
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