Re: [gentoo-user] Frame-buffer modes on an eee-pc
On Thursday 24 September 2009 16:19:15 I wrote: Two problems remain (until I solve those and expose the next layer!): 1.On starting X I find that the keyboard and mouse are not connected. I can ssh in and reboot the machine, so it's still alive - just not responsive to me at the keyboard. I've tried an xorg.conf from X -configure, and I've tried without. More investigation to do here. This one was easy, though I didn't find the answer straight away - it seems I'd omitted to add hald and dbus to the default run-level. 2.The wireless network. This uses an Atheros chip, device 168c:002b, not quite the same as the chips described on gentoo-wiki. Has anyone here got this system working? Do I need madwifi, for instance? The old laptop this netbook will replace has a madwifi installation that I could plagiarise. No problem here either. If anyone wants to know what I did to get the wlan working they've only to ask. -- Rgds Peter
Re: [gentoo-user] Frame-buffer modes on an eee-pc
On Tuesday 22 September 2009 18:33:30 Daniel da Veiga wrote: As an owner (701 and 900), I researched a lot, and found this: http://code.toofishes.net/cgit/dan/eee.git/tree/kernel-eee/kernelconfig An interesting link - thanks. His hardware differs from mine and it's not easy to pick out the differences I want from those I don't; I think I've got most of the right things though. Its an Arch developer that makes a binary package (an eee specific kernel), but he publishes all info using git (including the kernel config file). You can use that to compile your own kernel and it will give you a perfectly working framebuffer at native resolution (800x480 in 701, and 1024x600 in 900). I do now have a 127x37 text console, which looks like the one I described but is activated earlier. It'll do nicely. I assume it's 1024x600. Two problems remain (until I solve those and expose the next layer!): 1. On starting X I find that the keyboard and mouse are not connected. I can ssh in and reboot the machine, so it's still alive - just not responsive to me at the keyboard. I've tried an xorg.conf from X -configure, and I've tried without. More investigation to do here. 2. The wireless network. This uses an Atheros chip, device 168c:002b, not quite the same as the chips described on gentoo-wiki. Has anyone here got this system working? Do I need madwifi, for instance? The old laptop this netbook will replace has a madwifi installation that I could plagiarise. -- Rgds Peter
[gentoo-user] Frame-buffer modes on an eee-pc
Hello list, My wife has a nice new Asus 1005AH and I'm installing Gentoo on it so that she won't have to struggle with the likes of Lookout Inarush. I've spent several days so far exploring blind alleys while getting the box to boot with a working Ethernet connection; eventually I discovered that I had to go to gentoo-sources-2.6.31, and I now have a running text-mode system. While messing about at the weekend I found a frame-buffer mode I liked, but now I can't reproduce it. The graphics chip is an Intel 945GME Express, I have intelfb and i2c-dev compiled into the 2.6.31 kernel, and this grub entry: root (hd0,4) kernel /kernel-2.6.31-gentoo root=/dev/sda6 video=intelfb:mode=1024x600 softlevel=no-x When I accidentally hit on the configuration I liked, the display started at the standard 80x25, then when it got to Waiting for uevents to be processed the screen blanked and then continued in something like 60 lines (I didn't actually count them); finally at udev-postmount the line length was changef from 80 to something like 120 (I didn't count that either). A very pretty display, clear as crystal. Can anybody point me to the config I need? I've tried google of course but no joy there. -- Rgds Peter
Re: [gentoo-user] Frame-buffer modes on an eee-pc
On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 12:02:59PM +0100, Penguin Lover Peter Humphrey squawked: root (hd0,4) kernel /kernel-2.6.31-gentoo root=/dev/sda6 video=intelfb:mode=1024x600 softlevel=no-x When I accidentally hit on the configuration I liked, the display started at the standard 80x25, then when it got to Waiting for uevents to be processed the screen blanked and then continued in something like 60 lines (I didn't actually count them); finally at udev-postmount the line length was changef from 80 to something like 120 (I didn't count that either). A very pretty display, clear as crystal. Can anybody point me to the config I need? I've tried google of course but no joy there. Is the framebuffer working? I mean, when you boot with the parameters listed up there, are you stuck in 80x25 or are you in a framebuffer mode that you don't like? If you are stuck in 80x25 text-mode, the intelfb kernel documentation suggests you try setting the vga mode, see the file vesafb.txt in your kernel documentation directories for details. (The problem is that the vesafb modes do not include one that is the native resolution for the 16:9 aspect ratio displays; on LCDs this will make the text look crappy). If the framebuffer is working, maybe you just want to play with the screen resolution? I think that 1024x600 is correct for the 1000 series though. Do you just want a certain number of rows and columns of text on your console? That I think is determined by the FONTS symbol, the configuration should be somewhere around where you enabled framebuffer support. Changing the font size should also change the number of rows and columns. On yres of 600, if you want something close to 60 lines, then you may want to try using the 8x8 VGA font. The standard 8x16 fonts will provide 30 someodd lines. W -- REMEMBER: Stressed spelled backward is desserts Sortir en Pantoufles: up 1019 days, 10:05
Re: [gentoo-user] Frame-buffer modes on an eee-pc
On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 08:02, Peter Humphrey pe...@humphrey.ukfsn.org wrote: Hello list, My wife has a nice new Asus 1005AH and I'm installing Gentoo on it so that she won't have to struggle with the likes of Lookout Inarush. I've spent several days so far exploring blind alleys while getting the box to boot with a working Ethernet connection; eventually I discovered that I had to go to gentoo-sources-2.6.31, and I now have a running text-mode system. While messing about at the weekend I found a frame-buffer mode I liked, but now I can't reproduce it. The graphics chip is an Intel 945GME Express, I have intelfb and i2c-dev compiled into the 2.6.31 kernel, and this grub entry: root (hd0,4) kernel /kernel-2.6.31-gentoo root=/dev/sda6 video=intelfb:mode=1024x600 softlevel=no-x When I accidentally hit on the configuration I liked, the display started at the standard 80x25, then when it got to Waiting for uevents to be processed the screen blanked and then continued in something like 60 lines (I didn't actually count them); finally at udev-postmount the line length was changef from 80 to something like 120 (I didn't count that either). A very pretty display, clear as crystal. Can anybody point me to the config I need? I've tried google of course but no joy there. Have you tried: http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Intel_GMA Specially the part that explains the new Kernel Modesetting? The new GEM and some new features in newer kernels are pretty much all I neeeded for my framebuffer. -- Daniel da Veiga
Re: [gentoo-user] Frame-buffer modes on an eee-pc
On Tuesday 22 September 2009 12:33:59 Willie Wong wrote: Is the framebuffer working? I mean, when you boot with the parameters listed up there, are you stuck in 80x25 or are you in a framebuffer mode that you don't like? No, the fram buffer is not active - I just get 80x25, or some others if I pass a vga= parameter to the kernel. If you are stuck in 80x25 text-mode, the intelfb kernel documentation suggests you try setting the vga mode, see the file vesafb.txt in your kernel documentation directories for details. (The problem is that the vesafb modes do not include one that is the native resolution for the 16:9 aspect ratio displays; on LCDs this will make the text look crappy). And I haven't been able to get the fesa fb to work either. Incidentally, if I have both intelfb and vesafb compiled in (*), vesafb takes over in spite of have intelfb specified via grub. Not what I expected. If the framebuffer is working, maybe you just want to play with the screen resolution? I think that 1024x600 is correct for the 1000 series though. Do you just want a certain number of rows and columns of text on your console? That I think is determined by the FONTS symbol, the configuration should be somewhere around where you enabled framebuffer support. Changing the font size should also change the number of rows and columns. 1024x600 is correct, I'm sure of it. Fiddling with the fonts may help but I'd rather get the underlying screen resolution right first if I can. On yres of 600, if you want something close to 60 lines, then you may want to try using the 8x8 VGA font. The standard 8x16 fonts will provide 30 someodd lines. Thanks for the ideas. * Thanks also to Daniel; I'd overlooked gentoo-wiki, where there seems to be lots of good advice. I'll have a go at that later. -- Rgds Peter
Re: [gentoo-user] Frame-buffer modes on an eee-pc
On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 14:20, Peter Humphrey pe...@humphrey.ukfsn.org wrote: On Tuesday 22 September 2009 12:33:59 Willie Wong wrote: Is the framebuffer working? I mean, when you boot with the parameters listed up there, are you stuck in 80x25 or are you in a framebuffer mode that you don't like? No, the fram buffer is not active - I just get 80x25, or some others if I pass a vga= parameter to the kernel. If you are stuck in 80x25 text-mode, the intelfb kernel documentation suggests you try setting the vga mode, see the file vesafb.txt in your kernel documentation directories for details. (The problem is that the vesafb modes do not include one that is the native resolution for the 16:9 aspect ratio displays; on LCDs this will make the text look crappy). And I haven't been able to get the fesa fb to work either. Incidentally, if I have both intelfb and vesafb compiled in (*), vesafb takes over in spite of have intelfb specified via grub. Not what I expected. If the framebuffer is working, maybe you just want to play with the screen resolution? I think that 1024x600 is correct for the 1000 series though. Do you just want a certain number of rows and columns of text on your console? That I think is determined by the FONTS symbol, the configuration should be somewhere around where you enabled framebuffer support. Changing the font size should also change the number of rows and columns. 1024x600 is correct, I'm sure of it. Fiddling with the fonts may help but I'd rather get the underlying screen resolution right first if I can. On yres of 600, if you want something close to 60 lines, then you may want to try using the 8x8 VGA font. The standard 8x16 fonts will provide 30 someodd lines. Thanks for the ideas. * Thanks also to Daniel; I'd overlooked gentoo-wiki, where there seems to be lots of good advice. I'll have a go at that later. As an owner (701 and 900), I researched a lot, and found this: http://code.toofishes.net/cgit/dan/eee.git/tree/kernel-eee/kernelconfig Its an Arch developer that makes a binary package (an eee specific kernel), but he publishes all info using git (including the kernel config file). You can use that to compile your own kernel and it will give you a perfectly working framebuffer at native resolution (800x480 in 701, and 1024x600 in 900). -- Daniel da Veiga
