Tuesday, March 31, 2009, 11:07:55 AM, Sergey wrote: > Monday, March 30, 2009, 8:59:58 PM, Alejandro wrote:
>>> I have a similar laptop, with the same intel chip and intelfb also >>> didn't work. while vesafb works good. >>> Cheers! >>> Vesafb works fine for me too. >>> In native 1280x800 resolution? >> I can't remeber but maybe is 1024x768 > I've enabled vesafb and set same settings as Gentoo LiveCD: > # cat /boot/grub/grub.conf > default 0 > timeout 5 > title Gentoo Linux 2.6.27-r8-b0 > root (hd0,0) > kernel /boot/kernel-2.6.27-gentoo-r8-b0 root=/dev/sda3 vga=791 > # cat /usr/src/linux/.config | grep FB | grep -v '^#' > CONFIG_FB=y > CONFIG_FB_CFB_FILLRECT=y > CONFIG_FB_CFB_COPYAREA=y > CONFIG_FB_CFB_IMAGEBLIT=y > CONFIG_FB_MODE_HELPERS=y > CONFIG_FB_VESA=y > # dmesg | grep vesafb > vesafb: framebuffer at 0xe0000000, mapped to 0xf8a80000, using 3072k, total > 7616k > vesafb: mode is 1024x768x16, linelength=2048, pages=3 > vesafb: scrolling: redraw > vesafb: Truecolor: size=0:5:6:5, shift=0:11:5:0 > But when system boots I see blank screen. > Any ideas? > # uname -rsm > Linux 2.6.27-gentoo-r8 i686 Fixed. I forgot to add CONFIG_FRAMEBUFFER_CONSOLE. After enabling it everything works fine. Thanks for the help! -- Sergey
