Hi, Nick. On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 05:00:49PM +0100, Mick wrote: > On Monday 25 April 2011 16:03:21 Alan Mackenzie wrote:
> > As a matter of interest, do you know how to configure a framebuffer > > console to fill up a wide screen (say, to a width of 170 characters) > > as contrasted with the 128 characters which were optimum on an old > > fashioned CRT? > I think that things have moved on since the first time you installed > Gentoo. Latest kernels have the ability to load firmware for your > video card that takes account of the native resolution of the monitor - > without any additional framebuffer drivers (like vesa, uvesa, radeonfb, > etc.) As a matter of fact you'll get a blank screen if you try to boot > the latest kernels with KMS configured using any additional framebuffer > driver. Indeed. :-( > To save me describing each step, you would do better reading through > this page which details everything you need to do: > http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/xorg-config.xml A fascinating document. Thanks! > -- > Regards, > Mick -- Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).
