Re: [gentoo-user] Why is VGA card blacklisted in xorg-drivers???

On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 05:15:27AM +, Neil Walker wrote Which is a VESA res. Tried that? x11-drivers/xf86-video-vesa is the usual fallback. Thanks. I should've known that, but I've never had a need for VESA before. 1024x768 was supported natively by every driver I've used for the past

Re: [gentoo-user] Why is VGA card blacklisted in xorg-drivers???

On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 05:15:27AM +, Neil Walker wrote Which is a VESA res. Tried that? x11-drivers/xf86-video-vesa is the usual fallback. ELVIS Thank you, thank you, thank you verrry verrry much. It woiks! /ELVIS I now have TWM up and running with some incredibly tiny fonts. I'll be

[gentoo-user] Why is VGA card blacklisted in xorg-drivers???

I recently got an Acer Aspireone AO751h netbook. So I compile X, and run startx, and get a fatal server error about no screens found. See attachment. So I try the old standby... - add VGA to VIDEO_CARDS in /etc/make.conf - try to emerge xorg-drivers xf86-video-vga (either together or

Re: [gentoo-user] Why is VGA card blacklisted in xorg-drivers???

Walter Dnes wrote: A bit of spelunking indicates that both available xorg-driver ebuilds explicitly blacklist VGA, Well, as VGA only officially supported up to 640x480, it's probably not very useful for anything these days. so I have nothing to fall back to. Thanks for nothing fellas.