On 07/07/10 22:20, Mick wrote:
> On 7 July 2010 12:50, Jake Moe <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> On 07/07/10 15:50, Mick wrote:
>>
>>> On Monday 05 July 2010 23:46:54 Jake Moe wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> I've recently installed a new system, and can't seem to get UVESAFB
>>>> working properly. I've set up everything in the kernel, and modified
>>>> GRUB's menu.lst to use the framebuffer. However, even though there
>>>> doesn't seem to be any errors, I can't seem to get anything other than
>>>> "default" resolution with far too large fonts.
>>>>
>>>> I've compared dmesg info, GRUB configs and kernel configs between this
>>>> laptop, and another laptop that has UVESAFB running fine, and am at a
>>>> loss to find what's wrong.
>>>>
>>>>
>>> Stating the obvious, have you emerged fbcondecor, ran /etc/init.d/fbcondecor
>>> start and then added it to your boot runlevel?
>>>
>>>
>> Thanks for the reply. But...
>>
>> j...@aus10373 ~ $ eix fbcondecor
>> No matches found.
>> j...@aus10373 ~ $ eix fb -a con
>> No matches found.
>> j...@aus10373 ~ $ eix fb -a decor
>> No matches found.
>>
>> Erm, wossat then? Are you thinking of bootsplash? Besides, this is
>> something that happens long before the initscripts run; the screen
>> should go from GRUB to "standard" console for a moment, then it should
>> change to the framebuffer console.
>>
> I'm sorry, I meant v86d (looked at an old machine of mine which also
> has a framebuffer splash for more eyecandy in an initird).
>
Ah, that makes more sense. :-) Yeah, got it:
j...@aus10373 ~ $ eix v86d
[I] sys-apps/v86d
Available versions: 0.1.3-r1 0.1.9 {debug x86emu}
Installed versions: 0.1.9(07:07:03 24/06/10)(-debug -x86emu)
Homepage: http://dev.gentoo.org/~spock/projects/uvesafb/
Description: A daemon to run x86 code in an emulated
environment.
j...@aus10373 ~ $ grep INITRAMFS /usr/src/linux/.config
CONFIG_INITRAMFS_SOURCE="/usr/share/v86d/initramfs"
CONFIG_INITRAMFS_ROOT_UID=0
CONFIG_INITRAMFS_ROOT_GID=0
CONFIG_INITRAMFS_COMPRESSION_NONE=y
# CONFIG_INITRAMFS_COMPRESSION_GZIP is not set
# CONFIG_INITRAMFS_COMPRESSION_BZIP2 is not set
# CONFIG_INITRAMFS_COMPRESSION_LZMA is not set
Jake Moe
