on Saturday 06/20/2009 Ian Lee(i...@leehouse.eclipse.co.uk) wrote > John covici wrote: > > Hi. I have a Dell Latitude D820 laptop and for the life of me, I > > can't get uvesafb to work. There are no messages, I just get the 25 > > lines by 80 column screen. I emerged clib, and v86d and made sure my > > .config had /usr/share/v86d/initramfs as the initramfs source, and I > > have uvesafb built in to the kernel. My boot time command line > > arguments to lilo are: > > init=/linuxrc ramdisk=8192 real_root=/dev/sda5 udev > > video=uvesafb:1024x768 speakup.synth=spkout > > (all on one line in the original). > > > > Attached is my emerge --info and my kernel config -- assistance would > > be appreciated. > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > > > > > According to you kernel config, uvesafb is not built in to the kernel, > but as a module. Try building it in to the kernel and not as a module. > OK, thought it was built in, will try again -- thanks.
-- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici cov...@ccs.covici.com