Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Any way to get real text console without killing X capability?

2011-02-07 Thread Walter Dnes
On Sun, Feb 06, 2011 at 03:07:59AM +0200, Nikos Chantziaras wrote From lspci -v... 01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Device 9712 (prog-if 00 [VGA controller]) Subsystem: Acer Incorporated [ALI] Device 0372 Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 18

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Any way to get real text console without killing X capability?

2011-02-07 Thread Mick
On Monday 07 February 2011 16:51:28 Walter Dnes wrote: On Sun, Feb 06, 2011 at 03:07:59AM +0200, Nikos Chantziaras wrote From lspci -v... 01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Device 9712 (prog-if 00 [VGA controller]) Subsystem: Acer Incorporated [ALI] Device

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Any way to get real text console without killing X capability?

2011-02-05 Thread Walter Dnes
On Thu, Feb 03, 2011 at 04:05:01PM -0800, walt wrote On 02/03/2011 02:11 PM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 02/03/2011 08:07 AM, Walter Dnes wrote: Is there a way to have a real text console? I know that I can have 2 X sessions on tty10 and tty11 with different resolutions, and colour

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Any way to get real text console without killing X capability?

2011-02-05 Thread Mick
On Saturday 05 February 2011 15:27:27 Walter Dnes wrote: On Thu, Feb 03, 2011 at 04:05:01PM -0800, walt wrote On 02/03/2011 02:11 PM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 02/03/2011 08:07 AM, Walter Dnes wrote: Is there a way to have a real text console? I know that I can have 2 X sessions on

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Any way to get real text console without killing X capability?

2011-02-05 Thread Mick
On Saturday 05 February 2011 18:00:10 Mick wrote: On Saturday 05 February 2011 15:27:27 Walter Dnes wrote: In make menuconfig, I do not have any drivers enabled under... Device Drivers --- Graphics support --- -*- Support for frame buffer devices ---

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Any way to get real text console without killing X capability?

2011-02-05 Thread Walter Dnes
On Sat, Feb 05, 2011 at 09:31:48PM +0200, Nikos Chantziaras wrote On 02/05/2011 08:00 PM, Mick wrote: Just try video=1024x768 (or whatever your desired resolution is) on the kernel line and it should just work. Unfortunately, it doesn't. Actually, it does, video=640x480 in my case.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Any way to get real text console without killing X capability?

2011-02-04 Thread Paul Hartman
On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 6:37 PM, Nikos Chantziaras rea...@arcor.de wrote: On 02/04/2011 02:05 AM, walt wrote: On 02/03/2011 02:11 PM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 02/03/2011 08:07 AM, Walter Dnes wrote: Is there a way to have a real text console? I know that I can have 2 X sessions on tty10

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Any way to get real text console without killing X capability?

2011-02-04 Thread Enrico Weigelt
* Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: KMS removes the need for the video driver to be aware of all the nonsense that requires. The driver no longer needs to get up close and personal with everything else the kernel is doing and make really sure it's timing is really right. Of course,

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Any way to get real text console without killing X capability?

2011-02-03 Thread Alan McKinnon
Apparently, though unproven, at 02:05 on Friday 04 February 2011, walt did opine thusly: On 02/03/2011 02:11 PM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 02/03/2011 08:07 AM, Walter Dnes wrote: Is there a way to have a real text console? I know that I can have 2 X sessions on tty10 and tty11 with